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Apr 28, 2016 · Navigation. 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.
- Mark Cartwright
Phoenician merchants began sailing in merchant ships throughout the Mediterranean Sea as part of trade voyages. They went first to nearby places like Cyprus, and slowly sailed further out across the sea. 3 Unlike later explorers, the Phoenicians did not really have tools to help them navigate.
Nov 10, 2014 · Sailing westward from their homeland on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the Phoenicians traded with indigenous peoples and established colonies as far west as the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Morocco, past the Straits of Gibraltar.
Aug 12, 2019 · The Phoenicians were the first great explorers of the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Homer called them “famous for their ships” (ναυσίκλυτοι; Hom. Od. 15.415), and their excellence in seamanship meant that they went throughout the Mediterranean.
Apr 3, 2024 · The Phoenicians were outstanding seafarers, successfully traveling the Mediterranean and Red Seas, as well as interior waterways and the coast of the mid-Atlantic. A few historians, however, think the Phoenicians navigated the entire Atlantic Ocean ... more than 700 years before Leif Ericson, and a thousand years before Christopher Columbus.
Jun 23, 2020 · Phoenician ships reached Iberia and then looped around to return east with the winds and currents along the coast of the Maghreb. They visited new lands rich in metals, made new friends, and by about 900 BCE they had battled their way through the ‘Pillars of Hercules’—the Rock of Gibraltar and Jebel Musa—and out into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Phoenicians were master seafarers and traders who created a robust network across—and beyond—the Mediterranean Sea, spreading technologies and ideas as they traveled.
