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The Chola Empire's Lost Fleet: The Vanished Trade with Egypt and Rome
Long before the Cholas sent embassies to Song China, their predecessors on the Tamil coast were trading directly with the Roman Empire. This episode follows the archaeological trail of a lost world: Roman gold coins found in Tamil Nadu, Muziris the emporium on the Periyar River, and the Tamil Sangam poems that describe Roman ships docking at Indian wharves. We explore why this trade collapsed in the 3rd century CE, severing a link that had connected South India to the Mediterranean for four hundred years. Along the way we meet the Yavana merchants, the Chera kings who controlled the pepper…
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