Hanno

Hanno (fl. 530-470 bc), Carthaginian navigator who undertook a voyage of exploration and colonization along the west coast of Africa. He probably sailed as far as present-day Sierra Leone, having established six colonies, and a total of up to 30,000 colonists, on the African coast as he went, and exploring some way up two rivers that have been identified as the Sénégal and the Gambia. When he returned to Carthage, he inscribed an account of his travels on a tablet that he deposited in the temple of the Phoenician god Moloch. The original narrative was composed in the Phoenician language; a Greek translation exists under the title Periplus (Voyage).