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en-wikipedia-org-6860		Xerxes Canal - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1502	156	76	The Xerxes Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα του Ξέρξη) was a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, built by king Xerxes I of Persia in the 5th century BCE. According to the Histories of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, which recounts the events of the Greco-Persian Wars, the Persian commander Mardonios, in 492 BCE, lost a great part of his fleet, 300 ships and 20,000 men, in a storm going around the cliffs of the Athos peninsula, during the First Persian invasion of Greece.[2] The veracity of Herodotus' claims was doubted already in ancient times, but land surveys and geophysical investigations of the peninsula have confirmed the existence of the canal.[1] Uren: "The Canal of Xerxes: Summary of Investigations 1991–2001" Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 98 (2003), pp. Uren: "The Canal of Xerxes: Summary of Investigations 1991–2001" Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 98 (2003), pp.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6860.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6860.txt