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The inhabitants of North Africa may have been familiar to some degree and had some contact with subsaharan Africa.
by lo_zamoyski 3y ago
The inhabitants of North Africa may have been familiar to some degree and had some contact with subsaharan Africa.
- ffhhttt 3y agoThere are Carthaginian records of an expedition to Subsaharan Africa where they encountered fury human like creatures which they called the “Gorillai”. The name was reused in the 1800s, of course we don’t know it was actual gorillas that they encountered might have been other great apes. Also there is no evidence this was a regular occurrence. Getting over the Sahara is extremely hard and ancient ships weren’t really fit for this type of journey due to the prevailing winds (some scientists today still doubt that Hanno the Navigator could have sailed further than West Sahara despite the written evidence..). Anyway.. it’s extremely unlikely they were in direct contact and good luck getting any great apes across the desert. Also even if they did Carthaginian culture (and pretty much all written records) was pretty exterminated by the Romans.