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Madagascar Ocean

Did the Ancient Egyptians ever go into the Indian Ocean.....?

and make it to Madagascar?

I would think probably not. Although the Egyptains travelled by boat and ship a good deal on the Nile, they don't seem to have been very keen on sea travel. In the British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, it says:

'When sailing outside the Nile valley, on the Mediterranean or the Red Sea, the ships seem to have stayed close to the shore. Unlike the Greeks, the Egyptains were evidently not enthusiastic seafarers.'

The Egyptian did sail down the coast of Africa, to Punt ( a country in eastern Africa, nobody seems to know exactly where it was though, possibly Eritrea or the southern Sudan). However, I imagine that they would have kept close to the shoreline during these voyages.

I don't quite understand the comment about the Suez Canal (in reply above). If you're in Egypt, you don't need to go through the Suez Canal to get to the Red Sea.

Madagascar Marine Project

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