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en-wikipedia-org-2982		Necho II - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4103	679	78	At some point between 610 and before 594 BC, Necho reputedly commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians,[29] who it is said in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the mouth of the Nile; and would thereby be the first completion of the Cape Route.[30][31] Herodotus' account was handed down to him by oral tradition,[32] but is seen as potentially credible because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians "as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya (Africa), they had the sun on their right"—to northward of them (The Histories 4.42).[33] Pliny reported that Hanno had circumnavigated Africa, which may have been a conflation with Necho's voyage, while Strabo, Polybius, and Ptolemy doubted the description;[34] at the time it was not generally known that Africa was surrounded by an ocean (with the southern part of Africa being thought connected to Asia).[35] F.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2982.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2982.txt