Did the Tessarakonteres exist?
Tessarakonteres (Greek: τεσσαρακοντήρης, “forty-rowed”), or simply “forty” was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. Did the Syracusia exist? The Syracusia was an ancient sailing vessel designed by Archimedes in the 3rd century BCE. She was fabled as being one of the largest ships ever…