Left out Hanno and Himilco, Carthaginians who sailed around Africa, former discovered the Gold mines in Gold Coast; latter went to Britain for tin, 500 B.C.; settled SPAIN< establishing small cities there
Himilco was 4 months on the Atlantic ocean, 500 B.C.
IROQUOIS LEGEND 700B.C. “2200 years before the Columbus,”
“foreign people sailed
from a port unknown”
“winds drove them contrary”
“wrecked somewhere on the
southern part of the Great Island”
“them on the summit of a mountain
and remained there but a short time the hawks seemed to threaten them, and were compelled to leave the mountain. They immediately selected a place for residence and built a small fortification in order to provide against the attacks of furious beasts; if there should be any made. After many years the foreign people became numerous, and extended their settlements; but afterwards they were destroyed by the monsters that overrun the country.
“He [Hanno]sailed accordingly with sixty ships,
fifty oars each and a body of men and to the number
of thirty thousand and other necessaries” [500 B.C.]
“
500BC PUNIC CARTHAGINIANS PHONECIANS
Phoenicians too.alphabet
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren
“Heeren’s works”: Tr. from the German, Volume 6
D.A. Talboys, 1838
p487
“V. The Voyage of Hanno commander of the Carthaginians round the parts of Libya beyond the Pillars of Hercules which he deposited in the temple of Saturn” -PP.486-487
Very good point, bunkerhill7. The Carthaginians had their Periplus of Hanno, which remarkably enough gave us our world "gorilla". Herodotus records the Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa, commissioned by the Pharaoh.