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Xerxes' Bridge of Boats: The Persian King Who Tamed the Hellespont
When King Xerxes I set out to invade Greece in 480 BCE, his engineers faced a problem: how to move the largest army the ancient world had ever seen across the mile-wide Hellespont Strait. The solution was audacious — a pontoon bridge made of nearly 700 ships, lashed together with flax and papyrus cables, anchored against the current. But when the first bridge was destroyed by a storm, Xerxes ordered the sea itself punished, branding the Hellespont with hot irons and shackling it. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Xerxes' bridge of boats — the siege of the sea — drawing…
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