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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] They did both. The statement is a myth that has become fact in many histories in Egypt. The Egyptians had developed all sorts of means to sail on rivers and open sea way back in the 0ld Kingdom. The purposes for sailing along all of the nearby bodies of water were the same: trade, military action and travel. Egypt had been engaged in campaigns into the Levant from a very early period and the illustration of the ship and model of the ships from Sahure's temple is record of the need to transport people to and from the Levantine coast and further. The only reason the popular myth about Egypt staying away from the Mediterranean is continually pushed is because some do not want to openly admit that Africans had been dominating many of the people of the Levantine coast and using the region as a source of wood, ships and shipbuilding facilities from a very early period. It is easier to ignore that evidence and just restrict Egypt's maritime legacy to the Nile and Red Sea. This keeps them from having to admit that Africans were a major force behind the development of Mediterranean maritime technology, as opposed to the standard history of all maritime technology originating with the Greeks, Romans and Phoenicians. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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