By 1995, Perosea’s fleet, deployed in the West African trades, had grown to seven general cargo ships and handysize bulkers mainly of 1970s vintage. The fleet later contracted as the family briefly ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

For centuries, the glorious works of Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian often dubbed the 'Father of History,' have ...

But with the director’s new film “The Phoenician Scheme” we will get the answer to this question: What if Wes Anderson directed a spy film? In the new trailer first shown at CinemaCon ...

From here, Wuzhou's specialties, like Liubao tea and turtle jelly, are shipped to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Join Spanish traveler Alvaro Lago as he boards a cargo ship and helps ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

Disney cruise ships are now known as some of the best and most entertaining in the industry. If you recently decided you’d like to go on a Disney cruise, but you’re not sure which ship to sail ...

A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in present-day Lebanon. Researchers conducted analyses on 66 ...

Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept ... (Later on, oak would only be used to build ships – it was too valuable to stick in the ...