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Sep 3, 2024 · Phoenician Ships, Boats and Sea Trade. The ancient skill of building Phoenician ships is not a lost art . . . in fact it is still in use today. Historian Sanford Holst documented this remarkable experience in Lebanon: “When I was in Tyre in 2004, the local boatmaster was just finishing one-and-a-half years of work constructing a ship by hand ...
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The Phoenicians became sailors in the first place because of the topography of their homeland, the narrow mountainous strip of land on the coast of the Levant. Travelling between settlements, usually located on rocky peninsulas, was much easier by sea, especially when carrying such cumbersome cargo as cedar wood logs for which the Phoenicians were ...
The Phoenicians were famed in antiquity for their ship-building skills, and they were credited with inventing the keel, the battering ram on the bow, and caulking between planks. From Assyrian relief carvings at Nineveh and Khorsabad, and descriptions in texts such as the book of Ezekial in the Bible we know that the Phoenicians had three types of ...
The Phoenicians did not have the compass or any other navigational instrument, and so they relied on natural features on coastlines, the stars, and dead-reckoning to guide their way and reach their destination. The most important star to them was the Pole Star of the Ursa Minor constellation and, by way of a compliment to their sea-faring skills, t...
Both Herodotus and Thucydides agree that the average speed of an ancient vessel was around 6 miles per hour, and therefore, taking into account stops for bad weather, rest etc., it would have taken, for example, 15 days to sail (and sometimes row) from Greece to Sicily. Colaios sailed from Samosto Gadir (in southern Spain), a distance of 2,000 mile...
According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians managed to circumnavigate Africa in a voyage in c. 600 BCE sponsored by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho. Starting from the Red Sea, they sailed westwards in a journey that took three years. The sailors of Phoenicia's most successful colony Carthage were said to have sailed to ancient Britain in an expedition led b...
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3 days ago · Sailing the Phoenician Coast of Spain. The Phoenician ship dates to around 600 BCE, when much of southern Iberia was settled by Phoenician merchants and traders. Likely struck by a sudden storm, the ship sank only a few yards from the coastline and was quickly covered over by sand. Today, the ship is one of the most complete ancient sea vessels ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Excavated artefacts, such as currency, pottery, and ship remnants, corroborate ancient writings and finely detail the extent of Phoenician trade and settlement. Continuous archaeological efforts yield fresh insights, reaffirming the Phoenicians’ reputation as masterful mariners and traders.
Nov 10, 2014 · Later depictions on the walls of Khorsabad and Nineveh show horse-headed ships dragging cedar logs, round-hulled merchant ships, and warships with long, pointed prows. For decades, these Assyrian representations were the main source of knowledge for Phoenician ships.
Jan 4, 2021 · Today, their culture is associated with long-distance seafaring, trade and colonization, exploration, and language. However, in ancient times, the Phoenicians still needed to be protected from ground-based attacks. Therefore, over time, they developed a strong military and well-secured city fortifications that protected individual settlements.
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Jun 23, 2020 · The Phoenicians were, according to one ancient scholar, ‘the first to plough the sea’. The little ports of the Bronze Age Levant, including Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos, lay between the great empires of Egypt, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia.
