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Share The Greeks called it the Red Sea after watching the brownish color of its shores, probably due to a special variety of algae. Before them, Moses had already crossed it by waving his miracle-performing staff over the sea, which parted the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to walk on the exposed dry ground, leaving poor old Pharaoh and his army behind to drown in its depth. That was way up north the world at the time was the Middle East. A thousand years later the Egyptians tried to sail a bit to the south in search of myrrh and probably our baboons that had it nice in the temples of the pharaohs. As far as their Cushitic tastes and mystic disposition are concerned, myrrh and incense smelled like French perfumes and monkeys sacred as gods and perhaps as French poodles. ....