Ancient Times, a History of the Early World : An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History And the Career of Early Man

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The endeavors of Darius in this direction may be compared with the policy of the German emperor in building up a strong navy. Unlike Emperor William, however, Darius was obliged to employ foreign navigators. He dispatched a skillful Medi- terranean sailor named Scylax to explore the course of the great Indus River in India. Then Darius ordered him to sail ^long the coast of Asia from the mouth of the Indus westward The Medo-Persian Empire 1 87 to the Isthmus of Suez. Scylax was the first Wester...n sailor .
known to have sailed along this south coast of Asia, so little known at that time (about 500 B.C.).
At Suez, Darius restored the ancient but long filled-up canal 271. Darius of the Egyptians connecting the Nile with the Red Sea (§ 104). and'we^sf by Along the ancient route of this canal hav^ been found frag- ^ Suez canal ments of great stone tablets erected by Darius (see map, p. 36).
They bear an account of the restoration of the canal, in which we find the words of Darius : " I commanded to dig this canal, from the stream flowing in Egypt, called the Nile, to the sea [Red Sea] which stretches from Persia.


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