This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean. 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.

Greek and Persian trireme simulator, from maneuvering a single trireme through to the Battle of Salamis (480BC). The simulation accurately recreates the performance of ancient triremes, ...

However, as his vast armada sailed into the narrow straits between Salamis and the coast, they were met not by a fleet in disarray, but a well-ordered line of triremes, packed with Greek crewmen ...

Greek archaeologists have found the ancient military harbor of Salamis, ... 378 Greek triremes (so called because they were propelled by three tiers of oarsmen) rowed, ...

The naval ram was a bronze device fitted to Greek and Roman warships. ... the dominant warship in the Mediterranean Sea was the trireme. Triremes were small, oar-powered vessels: 120 feet long, ...