Strabo

The famous Greek geographer of the first century B.C. In the year 24 B.C. he visited Egypt, and ascended the Nile as far as Syene and Philae with the prefect Aelius Gallus. He then spent some years in Alexandria, which was then the great world-centre of learning, ama ing materials for his great work. This geography is the most important work on the subject that has come down to us from cla ic times. It is in the last (XVIIth) book of his geography that he describes Egypt, Ethiopia, and the north coast of Libya.