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Originally Posted by Qfwfq
It is not impossible that Egyptians might have sailed across the Atlantic, as Thor Heyerdahl once demonstrated.
If they did, they became Americans and no longer Egyptians.  |
Oooooooo! Good call Q! I remember all the excitment when that was going on. I think National Geographic did a piece on it in their magazine.
What I didn't recall, and re-learned at your link, was what Thor meant to prove by his voyage(s).
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Originally Posted by Wiki
...While the purpose of the Ra voyages was merely to prove the seaworthiness of ancient vessels constructed of buoyant reeds, others contentiously have cited the success of the Ra II expedition as evidence that Egyptian mariners could have journeyed, by design or happenstance, to the New World in prehistoric times.[ ...
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No longer Egyptians!
Speaking of which, can you correct my title misspelling on this thread?
On the topic of the mining, perhaps the 'Easterners', whether Egyptian or Phoenician or 'other', didn't settle, but rather came, got their goods, and left. Moreover, they may have traded for copper the Native people mined, rather than doing the mining themselves.for the copper.
That's all I got.
