[C19fan]

Pretty well known the Mediterranean Bronze powers had extensive contacts with each other.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Both the Phoenicians and the Greeks had settlements in Crimea

[yarddog]

Isn’t that where Jason and the Argonauts found the golden fleece?

[wastoute]

IIRC from Nat Geo there is on display a Khufu Era boat that looks to me like it could very likely sail just about anywhere in the world with a good crew.

[Conan the Librarian]

If they had boats (and they did) they would trade with other civilizations. This is why Troy became an important city, because they controlled the Hellespont. And later, Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul.

I have no problem believing that the Egyptians went that far.

[sphinx]

I suppose the question is whether the Egyptians took their river craft out into the Mediterranean, or shifted to stouter ships for ocean use. I never really thought about it. River craft are usually built to navigate shallows and are not seaworthy. On bigger rivers with deep channels, however, ships can swing both ways.

Related note: we just toured LST 325 in Evansville, Indiana. Many of the WWII LST's were built in inland shipyards, including Evansville, which produced over 100 during the war. With no load and empty ballast tanks, LST's drew less than 10 feet of water, so you could get them up and down the Ohio, Mississippi and some other major rivers. Of course, being flat-bottomed (basically ocean going barges), they pitched something awful at sea. Our guide said that in rough weather on an Atlantic crossing, an LST would pitch 30 degrees to port and starboard every ten seconds.

So: I don't know if I'd want to take an Egyptian Nile boat out to sea. That said, the Viking longships were fairly seaworthy and still shallow draft enough to get far up the rivers, which was a big part of the Viking secret sauce during the Dark Ages.

[Little Ray]

The Egyptians sailed the Red Sea.
And they didn’t do it in boats made of reeds, either. They built pretty sophisticated ships.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cue up “King Tut.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Didn’t the Kontiki expedition prove this +50 years ago??

[butlerweave]

Check the floor of the Black Sea ,if they sailed it some of them will be sitting on the Sea’s floor

[Tucker39]

What that crew is going to attempt is exactly bassackwards of what the headline says: “Sail TO the Black Sea FROM the ME”. This crew will start out FROM the Black Sea. Sine my name is Thomas, I wonder whether any of it is true?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in my youth, I read the books of Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku, the RA Expeditions.

The Egyptians might have done it. The RA almost made it from the West coast of Africa to the Americas. Again, ALMOST.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[bert]

At that time, it was possible to reach the Oxus river deep in Asia by water.

Alexander took armies as far as India by the continuous water route from the Medeterranian.

Here is youtube part 6 . Ihave it all on file and watched it before on youtube It is extremely interesting

The CD set
alexander’s lost world series source of civilization documentary hd

[central_va]

Egyptians built pretty good galleys in their day.

[CJ Wolf]

Yep and it’s also pretty well known the achieved space travel too. ;)

[BradyLS]

I thought Thor Hayjerdahl (sic) proved that reed boats could cross the ocean? What’s to doubt that Egyptians could reach the Black Sea?