Episode R2 – Arabia Felix

The Ancient World

Scott C.

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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“His Majesty…has dispatched a few days ago by the vessel Greenland a group of scholars, who will travel by way of the Mediterranean to Constantinople, and thence through Egypt to Arabia Felix, and subsequently return by way of Syria to Europe; they will on all occasions seek to make new discoveries and observations for the benefit of scholarship…” – Copenhagen Post, 12th January, 1761 Carsten Niebuhr survived malaria, earthquakes, civil wars, bandits, plagues and the deaths of all his colleagues to successfully complete the first modern scientific expedition to the Near East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	Episode R2 Arabia Felix.
1:31.0	A few months after reaching Bombay, the last of his companions died. Three years earlier, they'd set out as a group of five specialists, the cartographer, the linguist, the artist, the naturalist, and the doctor.
1:41.0	Now only the cartographer remained and with no ready map in hand to show him his next move.
1:47.0	Karsten Neboar had come a very long way in pretty much every respect. 31 years before in 1733
1:58.8	he'd been born to a poor peasant family living along the North Sea coast of Germany.
2:05.0	Nibor's only path to advancement was an aptitude for mathematics, a skill he'd used to
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