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Team attempts to rewrite history

A British expedition is to set sail from Syria in a bid to prove that Europeans were not the first to circumnavigate Africa.

The crew will be sailing in a replica of a ship used by the Phoenicians over 2,000 years ago. Lina Sinjab reports.

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