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Posted on 02/08/2020 10:08:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The replica of a wooden Phoenician ship, which visited Lyme Regis last year, has completed its 6,000 mile voyage across the Atlantic.
The Phoenicia visited Lyme Regis last July before setting out on its voyage from the old port of Carthage, Tunisia, in September. It called in at Cadiz (Spain), Essaouira (Morocco), Tenerife (Canary Islands) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) before arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club on Thursday, February 4...
The ship's trans-Atlantic voyage was part of the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition, designed, with the help of the US-based Phoenician International Research Center, to show that Phoenician ships could have crossed the Atlantic over 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the American continent.
British adventurer and expedition Leader Philip Beale FRGS, captains The Phoenicia, sailing with a multi-national crew with representatives from the United States, the Lebanon, Tunisia, the UK, Norway, Holland, Brazil and Indonesia...
In the UK, Phoenicians Before Columbus is approved by the UK's Scientific Exploration Society and the expedition is the proud recipient of the 2019 Captain Scott Society's 'Spirit of Adventure' Award.
(Excerpt) Read more at lyme-online.co.uk ...
There is no doubt other cultures sailed to the America before Columbus but for whatever reason they either did not colonize it, or tried to but failed.
So whether the phonesians found the America’s before Columbus or the Chinese did doesn’t really change the course of human history.
I think the modern dope on the mummies is suspect ...the Germans have not been forthcoming
Could he Victorian era contamination with faux mummies
“Why sizzle bacon, when you can sizzlelean
Even if that were true, which it's clearly not, since there is no "course of history" / historical inevitability and (other than among the Mayans, who had writing) no precolumbian history at all (since history requires literacy), it certainly does get brought up a lot, pretty much word for word, in pretty much any topic about precolumbian navigation.
Interesting.
Makes me wonder if she was both.
Erythraean Cuisine sidebar — I was in the mood for some lentil-based snack, and while this costs way too much, it turns out to be very good, and I will be getting it again:
Reese Lentil Harvest Bowl
http://reesespecialtyfoods.com/product/lentil-harvest-bowl
Harmless Teddy Bear, he sold it to the Spanish King and Queen as a shortcut to India to get funding and wanted funding to go back. There are reports that before his first voyage he learn about the American Continent from a Chinese ambassador in Venice, spoke to an Englishman who followed the Basque fishing fleet to the Grand Banks and dried their catch on the mainland, knew of the Viking New World sagas, etc.
It he knew all that then his actions become even more inexplicable.
Must have been Phoenician government workers..................
I wonder how widely they’ll tour US. I presume they plan some as a fundraising effort. Replica Nina has done so widely including far upstream on the Mississippi, although they had to use a modern engine to get there - river isn’t wide enough to tack and sail upstream. This ship is likely less suited for sailing up river than Columbus’s 2k years newer tech, yet I doubt they’d use the ancient solution of slave rowers.
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