01-02-2011, 12:46 PM
According to Wikipedia (which as serious as I can muster this morning :roll: ):
The [Canary] islands were visited by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Carthaginians. According to the 1st century AD Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder, the archipelago was found to be uninhabited when visited by the Carthaginians under Hanno the Navigator, but that they saw ruins of great buildings.[25] This story may suggest that the islands were inhabited by other peoples prior to the Guanches. King Juba, Augustus's Roman protege, is credited with discovering the islands for the Western world. He dispatched a naval contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador in what is now western Morocco in the early 1st century AD.[26] That same naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base.
No report on dragon sightings. :wink:
The [Canary] islands were visited by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Carthaginians. According to the 1st century AD Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder, the archipelago was found to be uninhabited when visited by the Carthaginians under Hanno the Navigator, but that they saw ruins of great buildings.[25] This story may suggest that the islands were inhabited by other peoples prior to the Guanches. King Juba, Augustus's Roman protege, is credited with discovering the islands for the Western world. He dispatched a naval contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador in what is now western Morocco in the early 1st century AD.[26] That same naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base.
No report on dragon sightings. :wink:
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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