The sister cities of Tyre and Sidon, Phoenicia by Sasha Beliaev

Phoenician, Greek, and Etruscan colonization in the Mediterranean, 11th-6th century BC.

Time Travel Question : Medievalish History 8 and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

A Phoenician bowl with a hunting scene, 700s BCE. In the center of the bowl, a man battles a lion. In outer rings, we can see ducks, horses, and finally armed men, perhaps hunters. The artistic style combines the two main influences on the Phoenicians, Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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Phoenician terracotta sarcophagus dating to the 6th century BCE, one of three found at Ghar Barka, Rabat, Malta, in the early 20th century. Now in the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta.

The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was long believed to the work of a mythical white civilization. Thankfully, in recent years this racist narrative has been rewritten.

The Hippocampus was known in various forms to many ancient civilizations. In Ancient Greek myths, they were the mounts of Nereids and gods.

Sea Shell With Carved Head At The Apex (Probably Phoenician, 600 BC).

Phoenician Alphabet, The First True Alphabet

Phoenician alphabet, the first true alphabet, the ultimate ancestor of most modern scripts like Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. It has 22 letters, all consonants (it's actually an abjad) and written from right-to-left horizontally.

The Phoenician alphabet is a direct descendant of the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. Developed by the Phoenicians and thanks to their trade especially maritime trade, it spread across West Asia and Mediterranean, making it the most widely used alphabet at that time.

Maybe this is subjective but this alphabet has a big influence, especially two of its derivative variants, Greek and Aramaic. Its simplicity makes it easy to learn and widely adapted. It's the most well-known and valuable heritage of the Phoenicians, thanks to them.

The Greeks modified the Phoenician alphabet, especially by adding vowels, thus creating the Greek alphabet. The Etruscans modified the Greek alphabet (specifically the Euboean Greek alphabet) and creating Etruscan alphabet which is the direct ancestor of Latin alphabet.

The earliest inscriptions of this alphabet date from around the 12th or 11th century BCE. Many come from Byblos, Lebanon and Carthage. This was used to write Phoenician, Punic, Old Aramaic, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Hebrew and Old Arabic.

The use of the Phoenician alphabet proper (the original alphabet, not modified) began to disappear in the 1st century BCE especially after the destruction of Carthage. Derivatives of this alphabet elsewhere at that time were used by many languages.

In the photo I wrote the Phoenician alphabet on paper along with the names of the letters and their transcription. Sorry if the writing seems stiff. Again, thanks to Phoenicians for this.

Taken on Saturday, 24 February, 2024 at 02:37 with Samsung Galaxy A10s.

Writing about the Church of St. Anthony in Roseland, England.

In dismantling the old Saxon tower to install a steeple about a hundred years ago, the old bell crashed down, smashing the tiles in front of the altar. When examined by experts, it was found that the bell was not even scratched, and was apparently made of wrought bronze, harder than tempered steel. The last people knowing the secret formula for this hardest metal were Priests of Ammon. The bell could have been brought to Cornwall by the Phoenicians. It was reinstalled in the steeple and remains there still. Its note is ‘G’, and unlike other bells it never varies, is never re-cast, and does not fade in semitones.

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Why is Spain called Spain (Espagna)?

The ancient Phoenicians who arrived to trade with the peoples of the peninsula called it Sphaniam (land of rabbits), the Greeks that arrived to trade with our city states called it Iberia for the river Iber who is a plentiful large river with a large delta at the end. The Greeks eventually adopted Spania for the place and Iberians for the people. Later the Romans took the name into Latin Hispania. Hispania became España in Spanish and Espagne in French, Espagne became Spain imported to English.

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The Phoenician world, 8th century BC.

by LegendesCarto

Working hard or hardly working ? recently for me i’ve been working hard at classes but hardly working at art. So here’s a doodle dump to let people know i’m living. here r my ocs inspired by classical texts anddd phoenicians (wahoo yippee the phoenicians)

The "Nora Stone," the oldest Phoenician inscription outside of the Phoenician homeland in the Middle East, found in Sardinia in 1773, where it had been used as part of a wall. It dates to around 800 BCE. The stone commemorates a military man's safe arrival in Sardinia. It reads:

From Tarshish he was driven; in Sardinia he found refuge, his forces found refuge; Milkuton son of Shubon the commander. To the god Pmy.

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“Apart from what separates them (which is not negligible), [European nations] are heirs of a common cultural matrix, which is at least five thousand years old".

 - Alain de Benoist.