[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916) › c7.7 # Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.7 Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.7 - **Language:** English ### [c7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.7) ² Μετὰ δὲ τούτους περιπλώσαντας, Ἴνδους τε κατεστρέψατο Δαρεῖος, καὶ τῇ θαλάσσῃ ταύτῃ ἐχρᾶτο, IV. 44. Darius tried, amongst other things, to re-open the Suez Canal, a project attempted by more than one of the Pharaohs, and afterwards by Ptolemy Philadelphus. Probably this was suggested to him by the report of Skylax on the richness of the Red Sea traffic. - [Previous: c7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.6) - [Next: c7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.8) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rawlinson-1916.c7.7) · Pramāṇa