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Xerxes and the Bridge of Boats: Engineering the Invasion of Greece
When Xerxes I set out to conquer Greece in 480 BCE, he faced a problem that had stumped every previous invader: how to cross the Hellespont, the mile-wide strait separating Asia from Europe. His solution was audacious—a bridge of boats, lashed together with flax and papyrus cables, sturdy enough to support an army of hundreds of thousands. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the epic engineering project behind Xerxes' invasion, the violent reaction when a storm destroyed the first attempt, the logistics of feeding a half-million men on the march, and the little-known role of the…
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