Pre-Roman expedition to Northern Somalia

[Emir of Zayla]

An Egyptian Ptolemaic Papyri talks about joint expeditions of merchants from Egypt, Carthage, France, Greece and Italy going to Somalia also known as “Aromatoron”.

This papyri text is 300 years older than the Periplus of the Erythraean sea.
Source: https://x.com/aromatamerchant/status/1706079610977280376?s=46&t=ZovcU8PjDKgyKwD0Ga2axA and https://t.co/ifmFfJao9l

 

[Garaad diinle]

I was looking for something similar to this. A number of years back i was interested in the name gardafuu so i did a bit of research and looked into it. I found out that it predated european arrival to the indian ocean and it was used by the arabs. Some say that it was pronounced as garad-fun or garad-hafun which almost sounds like garaad xaafuun.

Anyway long story short i was interested in what we somalis call the cape of gardafuu so i looked into it and found this video that talks about foreigners who came to the aromatic coast looking for aromatics.



Apparently the guy in the video claim that this story which is somewhat similar to the one you posted is an oral story that he heard not one he found in books.

 

[Abdirazaq]

An Egyptian Ptolemaic Papyri talks about joint expeditions of merchants from Egypt, Carthage, France, Greece and Italy going to Somalia also known as “Aromatoron”.

This papyri text is 300 years older than the Periplus of the Erythraean sea.
Source: https://x.com/aromatamerchant/status/1706079610977280376?s=46&t=ZovcU8PjDKgyKwD0Ga2axA and https://t.co/ifmFfJao9l

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Merchants from France??? This area was a wasteland back then, nothing but simple farming societies, unless of course they’re talking about Greek/Phoenician owned colonies at the southern tip of France around the Mediterranean Sea.

 

[Emir of Zayla]

Merchants from France??? This area was a wasteland back then, nothing but simple farming societies, unless of course they’re talking about Greek/Phoenician owned colonies at the southern tip of France around the Mediterranean Sea.

Yeah obv they were the only ones in France who could do that