ATHENS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Sailing with an ancient Athenian wooden trireme was a dream to come true for most of the visitors who boarded on the "Olympias" trireme on Wednesday afternoon at the ...

Visitors row the Olympias, a replica of an ancient galley, at Saronic gulf in southern Athens. The 37-meter (121-foot) wooden vessel moored off southern Athens is an experimental reconstruction of the ...

John Coates, who died on July 10 aged 88, had retired as chief naval architect at the Ministry of Defence when he took a central role in the building of a Greek trireme, the first, fastest and best ...

The Consul General of Greece in Sydney Dr Stavros Kyrimis is organising an event for Greeces Independence Day, 25th March 1821.The hour long celebratory evening will be held at the Australian National ...

The submerged remains of the naval base, dated to around 493 BCE, were found deep within the harbor of Mounichia, used today mainly for fishing and yachting in Piraeus, on the outskirts of Athens, ...