Scylax of Caryanda

Scylax of Caryanda in Wikipedia

Scylax of Caryanda was a renowned Carian explorer and writer of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Exploration and literary works In about 515 BCE, Scylax was sent by King Darius I of Persia to follow the course of the Indus River and discover where it led.[1] Scylax and his companions set out from city of Caspatyrus in Gandara, in today's Afghanistan...

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Scylax in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A native of Caryanda, in Caria, who was sent by Darius Hystaspis on a voyage of discovery down the Indus. Setting out from the city of Caspatyrus and the Pactyican district, Scylax reached the sea, and then sailed west through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, performing the whole voyage in thirty months (Herod.iv. 44). There is still extant a Perip...

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