Muza (emporion)

Muza and Musa and Mousa (Ancient Greek: Μύζα and Μοῦσα and Μοῦζα and Μούζα) was an important emporion on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea in Arabia Felix near the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in modern Yemen.

[1][2][3] Now it is inland from the modern port city of Mokha due to the recession of the coast.

[1] The city was mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,[4] Pliny the Elder's Natural History[5] and Ptolemy's Geography.

[1][4] Pliny describe the Musa as the third port of Arabia Felix.

[5][1] The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea has a detailed description of its trade.