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	Antiquity Journal & archive Archaeologica Archaeology Archaeology Channel BAR Bronze Age Forum Discover Dogpile Eurekalert Google LiveScience Mirabilis.ca Nat Geographic PhysOrg Science Daily Science News Texas AM Yahoo Excerpt, or Link only?	Thanks decimon for the topic and ping and thanks martin_fierro for the ping! Sailor to recreate Phoenicians' epic African voyage [2008] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. The Histories by Herodotus tr by George Rawlinson Book IV -- Melpomene As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Necos, the Egyptian king, who on desisting from the canal which he had begun between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent to sea a number of ships manned by Phoenicians, with orders to make for the Pillars of Hercules, and return to Egypt through them, and by the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared -- I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may -- that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered.
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When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail;

Now we know the real reason they pretty much always sailed within sight of land: they were looking for a good place to plant their next meals!

Columbus and others knew that when they went to America and prepared for the worst by taking tooks with them to build new boats

Big mistake. Only the Buckland Hobbits who live east of the Brandywine River understand Boats. The Tooks live in West Farthing. on the opposite side of the Shire.