Ancients in Africa: Did Ancient People Circumnavigate Africa? 

Shoutout to Herodatus for mentioning a theory he didn't believe. We need more Herodatuses

I love this way of presenting history, where you pick a theme instead of just going over an event

Correction: The canal that Necho tried to build was not like the current Suez Canal, but connected the Nile to the Red Sea. The reason he stopped, and sent an expedition around Africa instead, is that an oracle predicted that the canal would be used to invade Egypt.

I mean if there’s giraffes I think the Horn of Africa is a better guess than mid east/ Sri Lanka 🤷‍♂️

Regarding who you missed: Eudoxus of Cyzicus, who in the 2nd century BC travelled to India in Egyptian service, then on his own tried to circumnavigate Africa from Gades (Cadíz) to India.

Great to see you again, I always enjoy your videos. The hit and miss of what information survived the repeated cataclysms of history is fascinating: Bits of Hanno's journey; Recipe for Roman fish sauce; Half a Greek play; Inventory of a Mesopotamian merchant. It all combines into a rich tapestry, but the full reality of our ancient past would probably blow our minds.

I genuinely get excited when you post a video, because it's always good :D Africa is a cornucopia of interesting history. Sadly for Africans, history just keeps happening there

The ancient Egyptians I believe had a pretty good idea of the source of the Nile. So they must have looked.

Thanks for another amazing video! You deserve way more views. Keep up the great work!

Ancient geography is one of those topics that's intrinsically interesting. I'd love a video about what the ancients knew about India!

I just found your channel three days ago and I can't stop watching

Goes back to get impaled

Just subbed to you! Love your videos, keep on and i'll watch!😊

Hi Generic History I know this comment might be out of nowhere but I was wondering if you had any book recommendations on Spartan society and economics. Their society really interests me and I'd love to learn more. thanks

Im really not a fan of female circumnavigation in Africa

Really interesting video, I love exploration as well so I definitely enjoyed hearing about these crazy expeditions!

27:01 2013 ? I was with them

Always remember.. settle for your impalement the first chance you get.

Dear Mr Generic - Your graphics need to be proof read before you incorporate them into your videos, there are nearly always one or two mistakes in each video. (E.g. 'Wondering' on your Hanno map should read 'wandering', (to move nomadically). 'Wondering' is what you do when you don't know something and are imagining the possibilities, like this : 🤔 ). I can help with proof reading if you like. I've been an English language teacher for 18 years. 😉

Hano, Herodotus, and many modern people prefer to measure distance in travel time. In Alberta it is common to say Town X is 3 hours away rather than 300 km.

Congrats on 5k subs! 🎉

Man, you ask who was Hanno, but it is clearly stated, he was a navigator, duh.

13th

Richard Burton found the source of the Nile.

Really great video, thanks!

Dear Mr Generic - are you going to tell us about the other explorers who you mention at the end of this video, and make a part two ? I agree that imagining what the ancients didn't know, and their attempts to find out, is fascinating. ❤

best history youtuber 🏆

why would the Egyptians even try that? Portugal only did it because they wanted to cut the Turks out. is it really worth it too go all that way if you are right at the middle? very strange that they even tried too do that. I mean they also didn't know how big Africa is and hindsight is 20/20 but still.