Phoenician

Phoenician antiquities come from across the region, but the Tharros collection from Sardinia and the large number of Phoenician stelae from Carthage are outstanding.

The Phoenician alphabet was spread throughout the mediterranean by Phoenician maritime traders and become one of the most widely used writing systems in the world, and the parent of virtually all alphabetic writing systems.

Alternatively, it could be a variation of the Roman word aprica, which means sunny, or even the Phoenician word afar, which means dust.

It’s a UNESCO Heritage site: “This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshipped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period.

The remains could date as far back as 1,000 BCE making them about the same age as the phoenician alphabet.

Through scarce resources, historians and archaeologists have coined Gadir, or modern-day Cadiz, as the Phoenician capital of Iberian colonization.

The Phoenician provides all the rentals, so all the money goes to the organization, Barko said.

While Wes Anderson continues production in Germany on his new film The Phoenician Scheme, starring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Bill Murray, Riz Ahmed, and Mia Threapleton (Kate Winslet’s daughter), we have another treat from the filmmaker today.

Archaeologists from Alicante University have made the find at the Phoenician-built wall site of Cabezo Pequeno del Estano.

In the Phoenician-Punic period, the original complex was transformed into a famous sanctuary to Astarte, and then, in Republican Roman period, it was dedicated to Juno.

The Persian alphabet, like all middle eastern alphabets (as opposed to older non-alphabetic writing systems) is based on the Phoenician alphabet.

These are remains of the Phoenician settlement of Sa Caleta (Ibiza).

A drink in the hollow of a scooped-out coconut brings a rum, banana, toffee, and cold brew coffee combination that feels more Jamaican than Phoenician.

Founded by Phoenician settlers in the 8th century BC and known as the Silent City, it still feels wonderfully ancient, thanks to a near absence of shops and its beautifully preserved architecture.

It was part of the Phoenician civilisation, which encompassed the ancient coastlines of what are now Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and beyond.

Viewing this from a local vantage point in Lebanon, no reason appears conceivable why the same cultural and social feats should not be achieved by people living today on the shores that were called Phoenician in various observations throughout history.

Although they are now an Arabic-speaking people and ethnically homogeneous, its identity oversees overlapping or conflicting ideologies between its Phoenician heritage and Arab heritage.

Ancient Carthage was an informal hegemony of Phoenician city-states throughout North Africa and modern Spain from 575 BC until 146 BC.

Another advantage of Phoenician was that it could be used to write down many different languages, since it recorded words phonemically.

Archaic writing often preserves the Phoenician form with a vertical stem extending slightly below the lowest horizontal bar.