Hanno the Navigator

• Hanno the Navigator was Hanno II, King of Carthage between c.480-440 BCE.
• The Greeks preserved the account of his journey to Africa as the ‘Periplus of Hanno the Navigator’.

Expedition to Africa

• Hanno describes a voyage with a Fleet of 60 ships, leaving Carthage and passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.
• Carthage entrusted him to create seven colonies along the coast of West Africa, from Morocco to the Gulf of Guinea.
• The account was written on a tablet and placed in the Temple of Ba’al Hammon (Kronos to the Greeks), in Carthage.
• His unstated objective was to obtain African Gold.

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