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Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. The Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast episode 102 an Egyptian Odyssey aka a Passage to Greece today, the title is self-explanatory. We are taking a trip to Greece,

following an Egyptian embassy as they visit the famous city of Mycini. The sea rose and fell, a dark swirling mass under a clear blue sky.

The waters were deep, impossibly so, and the darkness of those depths seemed like an

abyss for the sailors who rode bravely upon the waves.

An Egyptian vessel made a fine cedar wood, unfurled its sail and sped across the sea.

The sail, fabric dyed green and red, rippled in the breezes which flowed at the sailor's

backs.

The great sea-going ship and its hardy crew were the representatives of Neb Maat-Ray Amunhotep III.

The Pharaoh of Egypt had commanded an embassy to go forth.

Ahmon Hoteb wished to forge connections with the people that were recently arrived on the international political scene.

They were up-and-comers, but increasing... on the to go forth, and a company of Egyptian aristocrats had bordered the great vessel and now sailed

across the sea in order to visit mysterious places unknown to their ancestors. They were heading for the land of Greece.

Greece was a distant shadow in Egyptian knowledge. Its people had been working their land

for 2,000 years and more. With some minor interruptions,

Greeks of different social identities had scratched a living on the edge of the known world.

Today, those Greeks were attaining more recognition

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