The Most Famous
EXPLORERS from Egypt
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Egyptian Explorers of all time. This list of famous Egyptian Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cosmas Indicopleustes (600 - 550)
With an HPI of 60.25, Cosmas Indicopleustes is the most famous Egyptian Explorer. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Cosmas Indicopleustes (Koinē Greek: Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, lit. 'Cosmas who sailed to India'; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit from Alexandria in Egypt. He was a 6th-century traveller who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian. His work Christian Topography contained some of the earliest and most famous world maps. Cosmas was a pupil of the East Syriac Patriarch Aba I and was himself a follower of the Church of the East.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Egyptian explorers born between 600 and 600. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Egyptian explorers include Cosmas Indicopleustes.
