The Forbidden Voyage

The Forbidden Voyage

AIA Society: Northern New Jersey (Montclair)
Lecturer: Bridget Buxton

A medieval map in Vienna, sunken Roman ruins off the coast of Tanzania, and a remote tropical archipelago where outsiders are forbidden: they are all clues to the origins of European maritime exploration and trade in the Indian Ocean. This lecture tells the story of how archaeology is beginning to reconstruct the history behind ancient legends of the ‘forbidden voyage’ between Southern Africa and the Far East.

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