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Many great states of Mediterranean had fleets. How far the navigators would came? Have you any knowlege about that? There is fantastic stories that America was discavered to 2 thousand years before Columb.

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The Phoenicians probably sailed around Africa fairly early. But I've never heard of them going beyond that into the other hemishphere.

 

I've heard theories that the Egyptians sailed to Central America, which is meant to explain why Central American Natives would have step pyramids similar to old Egypt. But it's just a theory, and I don't think it's a widely held one among the scholarly community.

 

Mediterranean aside, Vikings did discover America around 1000CE, but they left no permanent settlements and their discovery was forgotten.

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Some time ago I read about greece rostrum of trireme. It was found near Canaries but it condition was poor.

 

May be the Egiptians sailed to Central America. Yes. Would they run to India?

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