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Scylax Of Caryanda, Carian explorer.


In about 515 BC Scylax was sent by the Persian king Darius I of Persia to explore the course of the Indus River. Scylax returned by sea after 30 months. He is mentioned by Strabo as an "ancient writer". The Periplus which dates from the 3rd century AD is a compilation which seems to have been named in his honour.


See Herodotus 4.44


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Scylax of Caryanda (447 words)
Scylax of Caryanda: Carian sailor in Persian service, made a reconnaissance expedition along the shores of the Indian Ocean (c.515 BCE).
Scylax is known from a passage in the Histories of the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Scylax' voyage led him along the Indus, along the shores of the Indian ocean and those of the Persian gulf.
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