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c. 2500 BC
 
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A boat of cedar planks, some 44 metres long, is buried at Giza      
c. 600 BC
 
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Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them       
c. 500 BC
 
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The great network of roads built by Darius I has at its centre the 2000-mile royal road from Susa to Sardis        
490 BC
 
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Pheidippides, given the task of running from Athens to Sparta to request help at Marathon against the Persians, completes the journey in two days        
312 BC
 
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The first Roman road, the Via Appia, links Rome with Capua      
c. 310 BC
 
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Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule