P H O E N I C I A N S

These Web pages attempt to summarize the ancient Canaanite people of the Middle East called the Phoenicians.

In the coming weeks we will start to release information that you are sure to enjoy. In the mean time, feel free to browse this preview.


Did you know?

* Western/Latin and other alphabets came from the Phoenician alphabet?

* Beritus or Berytus (modern Beirut, Lebanon) had a very important School of Law in the Roman Empire?

* The Bible is called thus because it refers to the Phoenician city of Byblos?

* King Solomon's great Temple was built by Phoenician artisans using the Cedars of Lebanon?   (Photo)

* King Solomon, in his old age, became a worshipper of the Phoenician goddess Ashtarte?   (Photo)

* Jesus Christ visited Phoenicia and among the first to believe in him was a Phoenician woman?   (Photo)

* The bishops of all Phoenician cities were consecrated as bishops by the Apostles or their immediate successors?   (Photo)

* Tyre, Sidon and other Phoenician Christian cities and towns provided rest-stops and shelters for the Apostles on their way to convert the world?   (Photo)

* St. Jerome referred to Tyre as the place where St. Paul once knelt; and called Zarephath, Elijah's town?

* Britain was the Phoenicians' secret treasure of tin where the name "Britain" may be coming from Barr (land) of Tannic (Tin)? Hence Britannia did not come from Prutani, the name applied to the Celts by the Romans.

* The Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamen had furniture in his tomb made of Phoenician cedar?

* Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa?

* Phoenicians were the first to use the Pole Star for navigation?

* Phoenicians traded throughout the Mediterranean?

* Phoenicians colonized the far corners of the Mediterranean from the Island of Cyprus in the East to Spain and Gibraltar including the outer Atlantic coast and North Africa in the West?   (Photo)

* Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193 - 211 AD) descended from early Phoenician settlers and spoke with a Phoenician accent?

* Pythagoras was initiated into the 'Ancient Mysteries' of the Phoenicians c. 548 B.C. and studied for about 3 years in the temples of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos?

* Thales of Miletus (who was half Phoenician), one of the first great scientists, is said to have forecast the solar eclipse of the year 585 BC.

*Zeno of Citium was a glowing star in the pre-Socratic age but was rediculed in Athens for his Phoenician appearance.

* Popes Anicetus (155 - 166 AD), John V (685-686 AD), Sergius I (687-701 AD) and Gregory III (741-752 AD) were Phoenicians?

*The Phoenicians reached North America BC and Punic inscriptions in Massachusetts and Iowa confirm this fact?

*In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer mentions Phoenicia, Phoenicians and Phoenician cities.

*Melchizedek, the King of Salem (King of Jerusalem)and Priest of the Most High God (El Elion), who offered bread and wine to Abraham, was Phoenician?

*The Pentateuch (Moses' first five books, if not more, of the the Old Testament Bible, the Torah) was/were written down (transliterated) in Phoenician script?

*The Phoenician possessed the science or art of dentistry as evident by the fine braces on a lower jaw of a scull?

* The first parliament ever to convene in the Middle East met in the Phoenician confederate city of Tripoli?

*The Phoenician language is still spoken today in Malta (or Maltese is a mixture of Phoenician/Punic and other Mediterranean languages) ?

*To beef up their naval powers, conquerors employed the Phoenicians in building warship-fleets?   (Photo)

*The Phoenicians raised elephants on farms?

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  • Geography

  • Crafts

  • History

  • Homer

  • Language

  • Law

  • Literature

  • Music

  • Origin

  • Pagan

  • Politics

  • Religion

  • Knowledge

  • Trade

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  • References

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