What evidence of the Phoenician sailors, who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 600 BC, made contemporaries doubt their veracity? Detailed answer

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What evidence of the Phoenician sailors, who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 600 BC, made contemporaries doubt their veracity?

According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians performed this wonderful voyage at the behest of the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II (610-594 BC). They started their journey from the Red Sea, rounded the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope), passed through the Pillars of Heracles (Strait of Gibraltar) and returned to Egypt after spending three years at sea.

In his "History" Herodotus writes: "They also told me, which I do not believe, but someone else, perhaps, will believe that while sailing around Libya (as the ancients called Africa), the Phoenicians had the sun on the right side." So, going around Africa from the south and moving from east to west, the Phoenician sailors "had the sun on the right side", that is, in the north.

It is this fact, which seemed implausible to the inhabitant of the Northern Hemisphere Herodotus, who considered the Earth flat, confirms to us that the Phoenicians really crossed the equator, passed through the waters of the Southern Hemisphere and circled Africa from the south, moving in a westerly direction.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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