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c. 2500 BC
A boat of cedar planks, some 44 metres long, is buried at Giza
c. 600 BC
Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them
c. 500 BC
The great network of roads built by Darius I has at its centre the 2000-mile royal road from Susa to Sardis
490 BC
Pheidippides, given the task of running from Athens to Sparta to request help at Marathon against the Persians, completes the journey in two days
312 BC
The first Roman road, the Via Appia, links Rome with Capua
c. 310 BC
Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule
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