To: RightWhale
RightWhale wrote:
"If they don't know where Punt was, how do they know the ships went there?"
---Do you think it was a Pirates of the Carribean type thing? Maybe they needed a faulty compass to get to Punt :)
8 posted on
01/27/2006 7:14:16 PM PST by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: 1FASTGLOCK45
Ethiopia was a major power once, but that was after Egypt passed its pharoanic peak. Ethiopia traded with India and all along the coast. Still, a commercial route on the Red Sea and around to Yemen was not out of reach for Egyptian cargo hulls.
9 posted on
01/27/2006 7:18:25 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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