Phoenician sailors building a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont for Xerxes I of Persia, enabling him to invade Greece, c. 480 BC.

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Phoenician sailors building a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont for Xerxes I of Persia enabling him to invade Greece, c. 480 BC. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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