Dreams of India's Vast Wealth Made Everyone From Ancient Greeks to Renaissance Portuguese Risk Death To Reach It

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 6:10 a.m.

Claims of India's fantastic wealth lead Europeans through the centuries to seek to trade with this fabled land, which existed on the far eastern reaches of known civilization.\nAs far back as the 500s BC, Scylax of Caryanda, a Greek explorer sailed...