Necho
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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
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
Afterwards Pharaoh Necho gave them an opportunity for a short time to set out upon their voyages in the Arabian Gulf, not, indeed, from the north-east, but from the north-west corner of the Red Sea.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
Necho defeated at Carchemish by Nebuchadrezzar; loss of Asiatic possessions.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Seven hundred years later Necho carried it as far as the Bitter Lakes; it was finished by King Darius and the Ptolemies, who completed what the Pharaohs were unable to carry out.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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