An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test Theory
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We have evidence of plenty of trade throughout the region for most of that time.
We have recovered major bits of Egyptian ships. They aren't made of reeds. Edit: at least after 3000 BCE.
"During his last such expedition, the Abora III in 2007, he set out from New York bound for southern Spain in a bid to prove that Stone Age man made similar trans-Atlantic journeys.
"Goerlitz's team sailed for 56 days before a storm ripped apart his boat 900 kilometres (560 miles) short of Portugal's Azores Islands."
The Azores are 1500 km from Portugal. His boat fell apart in the Mid-Atlantic.
That is a major fallacy. Just because something is technically possible does not mean it actually happened!
Thor Heyerdahl made some impressive boat trips in order to prove some crackpot theories. E.g. he sailed from Peru to Polynesia to support his theory that Polynesia was settled by people sailing west from South America. But all evidence, including recent DNA evidence, points to Polynesia was settled by people sailing east from Asia.