It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water by John M. McManamon
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Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken ships for 800 years. Having no idea of the size of the objects he was attempting to recover, Alberti failed. For most of the next 500 years, various attempts were made to recover the vessels. Finally, in 1928, Mussolini ordered the draining of the lake to remove the vessels and place them on the...
Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water by John M. McManamon is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water aloud.
Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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