With a bronze battering ram attached to its prow and a crew of nearly 200 oarsmen, the trireme helped turn Athens into a naval superpower. Harder than it looksOlympias, a reproduction of an ancient ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

J. Richard Steffy, 83, a self-taught expert on ancient shipbuilding who helped revolutionize the field of underwater archaeology and earned a reputation as "the Sherlock Holmes of ancient ship ...

The Royal Navy came into its own during the "Age of Reason," in which ancient Greece was seen as a virtuous and exemplary ...