Herodotus does not name the sailor who led the circumnavigation of Africa in about 600 BCE.
Henry the Navigator
The Phoenician people in the 9th Century BCE.
Hanno.
In the 9th Century BCE.
Eighth Century BCE.
himilco
In the early 8th Century BCE.
In the fifth century BC the Phoenician Himilco. Though not much about Himilco is known, it is known that he also explored the coastal areas of France, Spain, and Portugal.
Himilco was the Phoenician who traveled to England. He went around Spain from Carthage and landed in the British Isles.
It was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, around the 8th Century BCE.
The Phoenician alphabet was the basis for the Hebrew alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BCE. Before that, the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script.