What do you know about the Phoenicians?

Question

Give your best possible answer, no matter how much or how little you know.

Answer 1

The Phoenicians were the forebears of the Lebanese. They were renowned for their trade, their shipping and their culture.

According to the Egyptians language is attributed to Taautos who was the father of tautology or imitation. He invented the first written characters two thousand years BC or earlier. Taautos came from Byblos, Phoenicia, that shows a continuous cultural tradition going back as far as 8,000 B.C. Taautos played his flute to the chief deity of Byblos who was a moon-goddess Ba'alat Nikkal.

Alphabetic writing was already well established in the Late Bronze Age at Ugarit where a cuneiform script was used. The Phoenician alphabetic script was borrowed to write well before the first millennium BC.

Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what we call Ugaritic, they also produced a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet. It was the Phoenicians' most remarkable and distinctive contribution to civilization.

c2300BC Phoenicians, a seafaring people, began living along the Levantine coast.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.A14)
c1500BC Linguistic evidence shows that the Canaanites (now more commonly known as the Phoenicians) were non-Jewish Semites whose language was almost identical with Hebrew.
1100-700BC The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean.

c1000BC The Phoenicians and other Semites of Syria and Palestine began using graphic signs representing letters. Aleph meaning ox was the sign that represented a sound such as that heard in the pronunciation of the o in bottle, known as a glottal stop.

c750BC Two Phoenician ships from Tyre carrying amphorae filled with wine sank some 30 miles off the coast of Israel. In 1999 a team led by Robert Ballard discovered the ships at a depth of about 1,500 feet.

332BC July, In Phoenicia Alexander stormed the island of Tyre and moved on to conquer Egypt. Alexander besieged the city of Gaza. He was able to take Tyre by building a causeway to the island.

Answer 2

Around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians and other Semitic peoples began to use graphic signs to represent individual speech sounds instead of syllables or words. There alphabet was adopted by the Greeks who changed the shapes and altered it's name, then the Romans borrowed the alphabet by the Greeks via the Etruscans and adapted it for monumental inscriptions. Monumental script is the prototype of modern capital letter. Medieval scribes adapted the Roman capitals to being quickly written on paper, parchment, and vellum. These uncial and cursive minuscules are the prototype of modern lower-case letters, both written and printed. This is to show the influence of their language.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary Second College Edition (At the begging of every letter entry in the dictionary)

The Phoenicians knew about Atlantis...
-->Diodorus Siculus declares that the ancient Phoenicians and Etruscans knew of an enormous island outside the Pillars of Heracles.
Link: http://www.crystalinks.com/atlantistheories.html

They knew about the Book Of Life/The Book of God's Remembrances/The Akashic Records...
-->Information about these Akashic Records ­ this Book of Life ­ can be found in folklore, in myth, and throughout the Old and New Testaments. It is traceable at least as far back as the Semitic peoples and includes the Arabs, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Babylonians, and the Hebrews. Among each of these peoples was the belief that there was in existence some kind of celestial tablets which contained the history of humankind as well as all manner of spiritual information.
http://www.crystalinks.com/edgar_cayce2.html

Answer 3

The Phoenicians founded Carthage in Africa. They were a seafaring and trading people. They are mentioned in the Bible. They invented the alphabet. Some of their cities were Tyre and Sidon. They also created purple dyes which were very popular with royalty.

Answer 4

? feel lebaneses are mixture of a couple of cultures, surely Phoenician had been stablished there for very long time as in addition they had been stablished in Spain (Port of Cadiz for illustration), however like the entire Mediterranean sourrounded international locations there were a couple of cultures which have been handed by way of that lands and Lebanon is certainly one of this international locations in which beside Phoenicians Roman, Greeks, Arabs had been residing, in order Aussy stated, Lebaneses are a mixture of a couple of cultures, and because of this we will say that Lebanon has a diversitiy of heritages and richness of their Culture. ?n truth in case you see a lebanese you can also feel he's Greek or Arab or Turk (from Turkey who are also a combined persons).

Answer 5

Phoenicians are phoneticially challenged?

Answer 6

nothing