What surprises me is North Africa. Never knew they put that much work into that area.
It was greener at the time, leading to Greek and Phoenician colonies, then Roman conquest.
Herodotus reports that the ancient Lake Tritonis was still lingering on west of Egypt in the form of small lakes connected by marshes.
The Phoenicians explored at least as far south from Gibraltar as Mount Cameroon, which was in eruption (it’s the only active volcano from recorded human times in west Africa), and of course circumnavigated Africa, clockwise, for the Pharaoh.
Archaeologically the Phoenicians are known as far south as what used to be Mogador, which apparently got its name from Mago, a onetime Phoenician/Carthaginian ruler whose name was on the pottery excavated there.
In what’s now Morocco the Phoenicians, then the Carthaginians, and eventually the Romans, took over Lixus. I’m not sure how old it was, or what its origin was. The web consensus is that the Phoenicians founded it. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it has a deeper history, although it could be adjacent to the classical ruins. It was abandoned in the 14th c when its port got silted up and the current town arose nearby. The Greek “apples of the Sun” were said to come from there, and it’s speculated that those were actually tangerines.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/romanafrica/index
https://search.brave.com/videos?q=how%20far%20romans%20africa
https://adamvaneckotraveller.sk/morocco/the-archaeological-site-of-lixus-near-the-city-of-larache/