Re:Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:06AM
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This over-land route was common, afaik. It may be one of the reasons the Greeks founded a colony near the Rhone delta: present day Marseille.
Avoiding this route to sail directly to Northern Europe may also be why a Greek explorer from Marseille, Pytheas [1], gave us one of the first, if not the first, direct accounts of the British Isles.
Avoiding this route to sail directly to Northern Europe may also be why a Greek explorer from Marseille, Pytheas [1], gave us one of the first, if not the first, direct accounts of the British Isles.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas