Nekau also sponsored an expedition by Phoenician sailors to circumnavigate Africa, which took three years. Many historians are suspicious of the claim that they succeeded, but the statement that they saw the sun on their right in the north – which Herodotus himself did not believe – seems to confirm that they rounded the southern tip of Africa.
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