Who Were the Phoenicians?Rick Gore
Josephine Quinn’s authoritative and engaging new study questions whether the Phoenicians had a homogeneous language or cultural heritage.
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The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant, which today encompassesIsrael, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon. What were the Phoenicians called? Historian Robert Drews believes the term "Canaanites"corresponds to the...
“What is the matter? Why don't you help one another? Today, they are surrendering themselves (and others to God)”17Then they will turn to each other for mutual reproaches. (The followers) will say (to their guides): "You used to come to us from the right side."18They will ...
The invention of the alphabet stands as one of humanity's monumental achievements, a cornerstone of civilization that transformed the way we communicate, think, and understand the world.But who created the alphabet?Today, we will explore the history of letters, their origins, and evolution, ...
The Phoenicians helped in spreading the worship to parts of Carthage in the Late Period. Scholarshave found several figures of Ptahat the location of ancient Carthage, testifying to the worship of the deity in that region. The Creation Myth ...
Even then, the alphabet was still incomplete, because Latin didn’t have all the sounds that are common today. The most obvious is the letter “J”; even though the first month of the Roman calendar was January, it was written with an “I,”“ianuarius,” and pronounced with a ...
Judith Jesch| Published inHistory TodayVolume 71 Issue 7 July 2021 Erik Röde Discovers Greenland, by J.E. Carl Rasmussen, 1875 © Christie’s/Bridgeman Images. In the popular imagination the two most common stories told about the ‘discovery’ of America are that it was by Christopher Co...
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