As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Necos, the Egyptian king, who on desisting from the canal which he had begun between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent to sea a number of ships manned by Phoenicians, with orders to make for the Pillars of Hercules, and return to Egypt through them, and by the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared -- I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may -- that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered.
The Histories of Herodotus, Book IV, Melpomene, tr by George Rawlinson
Herodotus also notes that a pharaoh known as Sesostris "proceeded in a fleet of ships of war from the Arabian gulf along the shores of the Erythraean sea, subduing the nations as he went, until he finally reached a sea which could not be navigated by reason of the shoals." (Book II, 'Euterpe', tr George Rawlinson)
The Eyrthraean Sea was the name applied to the Indian Ocean (including the gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, and the Persian Gulf), and I would infer that these shoals were actually the iceberg "calves" let off during the summer season at the South Pole.
The Phoenician artifacts at Mogador (west coast of Africa) are mentioned with little detail on page 188.
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"Melkarth" -- Project name for a third to fifth century B.C. trading ship carrying amphorae jars found in 1998 while Odyssey was looking for the Sussex. With no gold or silver, Odyssey has no plans to excavate the site unless a sponsor steps forward to fund it.
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