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Hanno the Navigator
Carthage, Tunisia
Archival Overview
Carthaginian monarch and legendary naval explorer who commanded a sixty-ship expedition through the Pillars of Hercules, exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa as far south as Mount Cameroon.
Biographical Record
Hanno was the head of state (Suffete) of the maritime republic of Carthage in the 5th century BCE. Tasked by the Carthaginian Senate with securing Atlantic trade routes and founding settlements, he set sail with an armada of sixty fifty-oared galleys carrying thirty thousand men and women.
Sailing south along the West African coast, Hanno founded trading colonies in modern Morocco and Mauritania, navigated the Senegal and Gambia rivers, and recorded volcanic eruptions at 'The Chariot of the Gods' (Mount Cameroon). His voyage was recorded on a bronze plaque dedicated in the Temple of Baal Hammon at Carthage, translated into Greek as the 'Periplus of Hanno'.
Key Life Milestones
Departure of the Great Atlantic Armada
Led sixty galleys past the Straits of Gibraltar, establishing colonies along the African Atlantic.
Dedication of the Periplus in the Temple of Baal
Inscribed the official naval logbook on bronze in the central temple of Carthage.
Departure of the Great Atlantic Armada
Led sixty galleys past the Straits of Gibraltar, establishing colonies along the African Atlantic.
Dedication of the Periplus in the Temple of Baal
Inscribed the official naval logbook on bronze in the central temple of Carthage.
Departure of the Great Atlantic Armada
Led sixty galleys past the Straits of Gibraltar, establishing colonies along the African Atlantic.
Dedication of the Periplus in the Temple of Baal
Inscribed the official naval logbook on bronze in the central temple of Carthage.
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Perpetual MemorialCarthage, Tunisia