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Gormo 55 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

> no, but in first century bc and after that the roman world was connected enough that rich young romans were doing their version of the grand tour.

So "yes", then.

gostsamo 54 days ago [–]

The og question is about two centuries earlier. Time matters.

vjjsejj 54 days ago | [–]

Define tourism, though. Even quit a bit before 300 BC Herodotus did go to Egypt for not particularly practical reasons

pjmlp 54 days ago | | [–]

To write a travel guide papyrus. :)

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