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The Indian Red Sea Ports That Powered Roman Trade
While everyone talks about the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean maritime trade route was just as transformative. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the bustling Roman-era ports of the Red Sea and Indian coast — Berenike, Myos Hormos, Muziris — that funneled pepper, pearls, and silk into the Roman Empire. They dive into the evidence from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the Muziris papyrus, and the excavations at Berenike that reveal a multicultural world of Greek ship captains, Tamil merchants, and Egyptian sailors. They discuss the monsoon winds that made the voyage possible, the enormous…
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