Necho
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Herodotus recounts an earlier voyage that surpassed Nearchus and Pytheas in audacity: around 600, a Phoenician fleet hired by Pharaoh Necho actually circumnavigated the African continent.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Four hundred years before Eratosthenes, Africa had been circumnavigated by a Phoenician fleet in the employ of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Judah became a tributary to Egypt, and when Nebuchadnezzar the Great, the new Chaldean king in Babylon, rolled back Necho into Egypt, he attempted to manage Judah by setting up puppet kings in Jerusalem.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Once Necho, the satrap of Sais, was brought in chains to Nineveh, there, however, to be pardoned and restored to his city.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
And Jehoahaz "devoured men" and did evil in the sight of the Lord and was carried away by Pharaoh Necho as a captive into Egypt.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein
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