To: SunkenCiv
Hmmm. Without the Suez canal, the Romans would have to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, probably in December or January. (Mid summer in the southern hemisphere)
3 posted on
09/15/2006 1:03:24 PM PDT by
CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
They used the Ptolemaic-era ports on the Red Sea. I don't think the New Kingdom-era Nile-to-Suez canal was usable by Roman times.
5 posted on
09/15/2006 1:12:50 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: CholeraJoe
They could. Or they could take a caravan across Persia or a boat from Elat.
6 posted on
09/15/2006 1:14:27 PM PDT by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: CholeraJoe
Hmmm. Without the Suez canal, the Romans would have to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, probably in December or January. (Mid summer in the southern hemisphere) I believe the wisdom here is that the Romans had outposts on both the Red Sea and on the Persian Gulf, and ships aplenty both places. Their activities in and around India, though, remain far more obscure than those in the Mediterranean.
8 posted on
09/15/2006 2:02:19 PM PDT by
Migraine
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