Costeggiando l’Eurasia. Relitti e rotte della navigazione tra il Mar Inferiore (Oceano Indiano) e il Mar Superiore (Mediterraneo orientale)

Abstract

In Greek mythology Europe, daughter of Agenor and Telefassa, Phoenician princess, was
kidnapped while picking flowers on the Phoenicia’s shore: the Levant of neutral and contemporary
political geography, or the jagged coast of Syria-Palestine according to a more correct historicalcultural definition of this very large area of the ancient Near East. The contribution would therefore
like to investigate from where the seeds of the flowers so loved by Europe moved, and to connect the
coasts of the eastern Mediterranean Sea with those of the Indian Ocean; two segments of the long fault
that separated the continental mass of Eurasia, making Europe and Asia geologically similar, as well
as - culturally - interdependent