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Re:An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test ... by mcguire on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:44AM (#20592828)
"Ancient Egypt" describes a period of at least 4000 years.

We have evidence of plenty of trade throughout the region for most of that time.

We have recovered major bits of Egyptian ships. They aren't made of reeds. Edit: at least after 3000 BCE.

"During his last such expedition, the Abora III in 2007, he set out from New York bound for southern Spain in a bid to prove that Stone Age man made similar trans-Atlantic journeys.

"Goerlitz's team sailed for 56 days before a storm ripped apart his boat 900 kilometres (560 miles) short of Portugal's Azores Islands."

The Azores are 1500 km from Portugal. His boat fell apart in the Mid-Atlantic.

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Re:An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test ... by armenarmen on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:27PM (#20594807)
Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II made it from Morocco to Barbados in a replica of an Egyptian boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra...
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