Strange 1,700-year-old trident discovered, causing shock

In the ancient city of Assos, experts excavated a Roman iron trident, revealing a previously unknown mystery about ancient fishing.

Assos is an ancient Greek city located on the Aegean coast, in the modern-day Çanakkale province of Turkey. The city was founded by Aeolian settlers between 1000 and 900 BC, and emerged as an important philosophical center under Aristotle. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism .

During the excavation of the Nymphaion, an ornate fountain east of the ancient city of Assos in northwestern Turkey, a team of experts from Canakkale University, in collaboration with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Turkish Historical Society, unexpectedly found an ancient, strange object. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

After cleaning off the dirt and oxidizing agents, it was not too difficult to identify it as an iron trident, believed to be used for fishing, estimated to be around 1,700 years old. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Onsekiz Mart - Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at Canakkale University said that this trident used for fishing is a type of material that the group also saw depicted on murals in the ancient city of Assos. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

“This is the first time we have found such materials in Assos, because iron tools are the fastest decomposing material over time, and are usually very scarce in ancient city excavations,” added Nurettin Arslan, a professor at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Nurettin Arslan goes on to describe how this trident may have been used by ancient fishermen, who would often set out at night in small boats illuminated by torches to catch large fish. These tridents would have been essential tools in this daring and skillful journey. Photo: @Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

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