距离遥远的人陆之间在交通快捷方便的时代以前很久的年代互相往来的问题和历史,一直强烈地吸引着专家学者和感兴趣的公众。古代的历史真的只是地理上、文化上和政治上孤立的“岛屿”共存的历史吗?民族人迁移,经济往来、对艺术风格的影响以及帝国的兴起、扩张和衰落等等,我们在学校里已经听得太多了,以致并不这样认为。美洲的某些考古发现甚至证明来自地中海的影响(例如腓尼基人的船舶到过美洲)、据说北欧海盗比哥 The problems and histories that have come in contact with distant people long ago in the era of fast and convenient transportation have always strongly attracted experts and interested citizens. Is ancient history really only a history of the coexistence of geographically, culturally and politically isolated “islands”? The migration of ethnic people, economic exchanges, the influence of artistic style and the rise, expansion and decline of the Empire, etc., we are at school I have heard so much that I do not think so. Some archeological discoveries in the Americas have even proven their impact from the Mediterranean (such as the Phoenician ships to the Americas), and it is said that Viking Pigeon