The Greek historian Herodotus, writing 150 years after the event, described how Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa in 600 BCE, 2,100 years before Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama’s voyage in 1497. It was to show the Phoenician capability to do just as Herodotus noted that Captain Philip Beale originally had Phoenicia built and in 2008 organized its first endeavor, which lasted