Read of Hanno the Navigator who circumscribed Africa around t00 bc.
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Wow. That’s a lot of cuttin’. Get carpel tunnel syndrome.
(I know, I know, but I had to)
HANNO DIDN’T Circle Africa—just went down the west coast to Cameroon. Another Phonetician team it it earlier for the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho—Herodotus wrote about in in his History.