Roman Ancient Shipwreck Unravels Greek Medical Secrets
It seems that ancient medical secrets have left their traces in the existing medical practices. As per media reports, a first-aid kit was recovered from a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck, which has revealed about the medication being used in roman era.
As per reports, the tablets found in the 136 tin-lined wooden vials on a 50ft-long trading vessel may have been used to treat patients suffering from gastrointestinal complaints like dysentery and cholera.
The team is of the opinion that ancient people must have mashed plants and vegetables with a mortar and pestle as the fibres could be seen in the tablets today. Moreover, the team found that presence of the medicine chest indicates that a doctor or some skilled physician must be travelling in the ship.
Responding to the revelation, Dr. Alain Touwaide, from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC, claimed that the findings have suggested that the ancient Greek medical knowledge was being institutionalized in the Roman Empire.
Meanwhile, Gino Fornaciari, a paleo-pathologist from Pisa University, told the Sunday Telegraph: “As well as understanding how the ancient Romans treated each other, we are learning more about what illnesses they suffered from”.
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Ship and Boat Models from the Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient ship and boat models from ancient Greece, Egypt, and Phoenicia have been discovered throughout the Mediterranean. These models provide archaeologists with valuable information regarding seafaring technology and the sociological and economic importance of seafaring. In spite of how helpful ancient boat and ship models are to archaeologists, they are not always easily or correctly interpreted due to artists mistakes, ambiguity in the model design, and wear and tear over the centuries.
In the Ancient world, ships ere among the most technologically complex mechanisms of the ancient world.2] Ships made far-flung travel and trade more comfortable and economical, and they added a whole new facet to warfare. Thus, ships carried a great deal of significance to the people of the ancient world, and this is expressed partly through the creation of boat and ship models. Ancient boat and ship models are made of a variety of materials and are intended for different purposes. The most common purposes for boat and ship models include burial votives, house hold articles, art, and toys. While archaeologists have found ship and boat models from societies all around the Mediterranean, the three of the most prolific ship model building cultures were the Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians.
Archaeologists have determined that Ancient Greek ship models were used as burial or votive offerings and as household articles such as lamps or drinking vessels. The kinds of ships depicted in Ancient Greek models can be classified broadly as small craft, merchant vessels, and warships. Models were cast in different materials, including wood, bronze, lead, and clay.
Greek warships were popular subjects to be made in miniature. One particular model, acquired by the Staatliche Museum in Kassel, Germany, proves to be helpful to archaeologists and historians in understanding what a hemiolia warship was like. Archaeologists have tentatively dated the Kassel model to be from the 6th or 5th centuries BC through iconographic and literary sources. This ship model is made of clay and features a distinctive prow shaped like a boar head that is described by Herodotus in History, and depicted on pottery, coins seals and drinking cups. The model is a miniature of a vessel that would have been too small to be a typical warship. The presence of holes bored into 8 thwarts in the ship suggests that the thwarts may have been seats for a pegged-in dummy crew. If the holes bored into the thwarts are indeed meant to accommodate a dummy crew, the crew seating would have been arranged with two men per bench amidships, and one man per bench fore and aft where the ship narrows so that there is only room for one man. Alec Tilley suggests that a small ship with this type of seating arrangement would have been called a hemiolia, or a one-and-a-halfer. The name indicates that two oarsmen would have been seated on half of the benches and one on the others. Until this ship model was discovered, archaeologists, classicists, and historians had only been able to hypothesize on what the seating arrangement might have been like on a hemiolia based on its name.
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