Warships of the Ancient World

Name: Warships of the Ancient World
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Warships of the Ancient World3000500 BC\nAuthor(s): Adrian K. Wood, Giuseppe Rava\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Osprey Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781849089784, 978-1849089784\nSynopsis\nThe world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated.\n\nA wide variety of galleys and other types of warships were built by successive civilisations, each with their own distinctive appearance, capability and utility. The earliest of these were the Punt ships and the war galleys of Egypt which defeated the Sea People in the first known naval battle. Following the fall of these civilisations, the Phoenicians built biremes and other vessels, while in Greece the ships described in detail in the 'Trojan' epics established a tradition of warship building culminating in the pentekonters and triaconters.\n\nIn the first accessible introduction to this.