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Try Speakly for free for 7 days, and get a 60% discount if you join the annual subscription: https://speakly.app.link/voicesofthepast -------------------------------------------------------- Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza Art by Lachlan (Feature History) Art by Bilal Erlangga Stock footage from Storyblocks and Artlist. Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist. Excerpts from: The History of Herodotus Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay The Periplus of Hanno Translated by Wilfred Harvey Schoff Germania by Tacitus Translated by Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodriff Weilue Translation from China and the Roman Orient: Researches Into Their Ancient and Mediæval Relations by Friedrich Hirth Ammianus Marcellinus in three volumes. Vol.2 Translated by Rolfe, John Carew 00:00 Herodotus on The Edges of the Earth (430 BC) 05:01 Hanno The Navigator on West Africa (5th Century BC) 08:48 Tacitus on Scandinavia (98 AD) 13:23 Ancient China on Rome (240 AD) 20:05 Rome on Ancient China (380 AD)​

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