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Scylax was an ancient Greek explorer and historian who lived in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE. He was commissioned by King Darius Hystaspis to explore the course of the Indus. On his journey, Scylax was one of the first western voyagers to land at Taprobane (now Sri Lanka).
“They set out from the city of Caspatyrus, in the region called Pactyica, and sailed downstream in an easterly direction to the sea. Here they turned westward, and after a voyage of thirty months, reached the place from which the Egyptian king ... sent the Phoenicians to sail round Libya.”
(Herodotus, Histories 4.44)
The west and the east have always been interconnected, as Scylax showed.