Misread Tuscan as Tucson, so I spent a good half of the time available trying to rack my brain for any moderately well known ancestral Puebloan type society that existed there at this time. This is pre-Hohokam civilization, about the only culture I know from that area that is remotely old enough, so I could not come up with anything.
It’s funny that the runner sent to deliver the news of victory had actually run ten times farther to ask Sparta for help, only to get rejected and run all the way back.
@Kearsage You get the Christopher Columbus Award for discovering the wrong answer to the question you set out to solve, yet somehow looking great as a result.
Herodotus has a Carthaginian vessel almost circumnavigating the continent of Africa in a clockwise direction, starting out from the Red Sea and returning to Carthage via the pillars of Hercules (straits of Gibraltar).
While there is not much tangible evidence of this, it seems eminently feasible to me (a sailor) that the coastline could simply be followed all the way around.
Even the ocean currents and tidal streams would help when sailing in this direction, which might also explain why a previous attempt in an anti-clockwise direction was abandoned after reaching some way down the Atlantic coast.
Nice quiz, looking forward to the 7th-8th century BC version!
At the risk of being nitpicking, the Marathon run is likely to be legendary. The version given by Herodotus - that it was the bulk of the army that returned to Athens immediately after the battle - is actually far more impressive!
Nominated
While there is not much tangible evidence of this, it seems eminently feasible to me (a sailor) that the coastline could simply be followed all the way around.
Even the ocean currents and tidal streams would help when sailing in this direction, which might also explain why a previous attempt in an anti-clockwise direction was abandoned after reaching some way down the Atlantic coast.
H was not the liar everyone made him out to be…
At the risk of being nitpicking, the Marathon run is likely to be legendary. The version given by Herodotus - that it was the bulk of the army that returned to Athens immediately after the battle - is actually far more impressive!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon#Marathon_run