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For 1000 of years Zanzibar lay on the edge of the known world.
Repeatedly lost by successive civilizations, the islands have drifted through the mists of time.
In this part of the world ancient history is poorly documented and it is not until 1107AD that we find our first firm date in the Zanzibar chronology.
For earlier references we must rely on inscriptions in Egyptian temples, Greek and Phoenician navigation manuals and legends to tell our story.
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Our first reference comes from the temple walls of Egypt, which tell of Pharaohs sending expeditions down the African coast to the Land of Punt, returning loaded to the gun walls with ivory, slaves, gold and animals like of which had never before been seen.
After the Egyptians stopped visiting around 1200BC, Zanzibar again disappeared from the maps.
Nearly a 1000 years passed before the Phoenicians again started to sail around Africa, but it was not until the the second century AD that Arab to re-initiated trade in the region. Arabs and western representative. |
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