Posted on 07/31/2019 5:59:19 AM PDT by C19fan
A boat made of reeds will be put to the test by a team of intrepid adventurers when they embark on the 800 mile journey from the Black Sea to Crete in August.
The voyage aboard the vessel the 'Abora IV' is hoped will prove that the ancient Egyptians could have made similar trips in reed boats thousands of years ago.
The 46 feet-long (14 metre) boat will be crewed by a team of two dozen researchers and volunteers, from eight different countries.
Setting out from the Bulgarian port of Varna, on the Black Sea, the voyagers will forge their way through the Bosphorus, across the Aegean Sea and on to Crete.
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Why would they?.............
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Posted on 07/25/2004 10:54:47 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Why would anybody? :^)
[Egyptians] are the only people in the world -- they at least, and such as have learnt the practice from them -- who use circumcision... They practise circumcision for the sake of cleanliness, considering it better to be cleanly than comely... the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times. The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine themselves confess that they learnt the custom of the Egyptians; and the Syrians who dwell about the rivers Thermodon and Parthenius, as well as their neighbours the Macronians, say that they have recently adopted it from the Colchians. Now these are the only nations who use circumcision, and it is plain that they all imitate herein the Egyptians. With respect to the Ethiopians, indeed, I cannot decide whether they learnt the practice of the Egyptians, or the Egyptians of them...
Histories, book II: Euterpe by Herodotus, translation by George Rawlinson, transcription by Daniel C. Stevenson
It’s interesting that the only gentiles allowed to marry Israelites were Egyptians........
Kontiki was built of balsa wood. Ra was a Thor Hyderdahl’s reed-boat.
Thanks. I read both, but confused them.
Yep and it’s also pretty well known the achieved space travel too. ;)
No link sir.
> Alexander took armies as far as India by the continuous water route from the Medeterranian.
No he didn’t. After crossing to Anatolia, Alexander burned his ships and beat all the asses he met by marching his armies overland.
Weekly digest ping. Here are the other GGG topics introduced this week.
I thought Thor Hayjerdahl (sic) proved that reed boats could cross the ocean? Whats to doubt that Egyptians could reach the Black Sea?
Ah. I missed the almost part.
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