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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Ancient Diolkos Stone Road Allowed Ships to go From Ionian to Aegean

The Diolkos stone road, a marvel of engineering from the time of Ancient Greece, allowed ships to travel overland from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean, bypassing the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Like the Corinth Canal to which it ran almost parallel, which was finally constructed millennia later, it made passage around the peninsula much safer for […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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