Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c6.39
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c6.39
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c6.39
The third, and perhaps the most important of the trade-routes between India and the West, was that which ran from the mouth of the Red Sea to India up the Arabian coast. Its importance lies in the fact that it linked India not only to the gold-fields and the fabulously wealthy incense country of southern Arabia and Somaliland, but to Egypt and Judaea. Through Judaea, Indian goods found another outlet, by way of the adjacent ports of their allies of Tyre and Sidon, to the Mediterranean.