The wealth and vulnerability of Ismarus might identify it with the Indus Valley port of Lothal. There I sacked the town and put the people to the sword. When I had set sail thence the wind took me first to Ismarus, which is the city of the Cicones. LAND OF THE CICONES (Indus Valley) Book 9: Line 39 – When the laden ships returned, the stolen booty would be divided up and shared with the Egyptians.
Taking advantage of this lucrative trade, the wily Egyptian traders may have employed experienced sea-raiders, such as the Achaean Greeks, to plunder the small coastal ports of Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. era provided a ready exchange for all manner of pirated goods.
The Egyptian black market in the 1160 B.C. Many Odyssey theorists are unaware that these canals existed or that Egypt at this juncture of its history, received ships from as far away as the Indus Valley (Pakistan), Insia (India), Arabia, Phoenicia, Crete, Greece, the Adriatic and even the Black Sea littoral.
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Once in their employ, the Greeks may have elected to have their ships towed through a series of narrow canals that then connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. In the late Mycenaean period it was quite a common practice for Greek mariners to enlist into the services of Egyptian pharaohs. A final, climactic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain in a makeshift boat would have awarded Odysseus the first circumnavigation of the globe c.1160 – 1130 B.C. After rounding the Horn of South America he navigated his way along the coast of Brazil and became shipwrecked in the West Indies. I am proposing that Odysseus might well be the mysterious, bearded ‘Caucasian teacher’ who is omnipresent in both early Mesoamerican and South American legends. From there he crossed the equatorial Pacific Ocean to Mexico and Peru. By sailing down the then existent Sesostris Canal into the Red Sea, Odysseus came to the Indian Ocean and ventured eastwards to India and thence the Orient. It is not just possible but quite probable that Odysseus first travelled to Egypt after the Trojan War. Much like Schliemann, I am convinced that Homer’s writings are based on actual historical events and geographical locations. It seems incredulous that an experienced sea captain could be disoriented for such an extended period of time when supposedly within the bounds of well established, eastern Mediterranean trade routes.īy following clues he had found in The Iliad, the German archaeologist Schliemann located the ruins of Troy, Mycenae and Knossos. The Odyssey recounts the adventures that befell the Greek prince Odysseus during the twenty or so years during which he was attempting to return to his home in Ithaca following the sacking of Troy.
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The Iliad concerns Helen’s abduction to Troy and the subsequent ten-year long Trojan War to free her. The Iliad and The Odyssey are the oldest complete books in Western literature and have remained popular for near on 3,000 years. Using excerpts from his book Sun Boat, Michael questions whether Homer’s The Odyssey might in fact be a veiled account of the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1160 – 1130 B.C. Please welcome our Author of the Month for June, Michael MacRae.
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