A set of ancient clay cylinders discovered in Syria may hold the earliest known example of alphabetic writing, predating ...
While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...
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From Canaan to Carthage, how the Phoenician city states survived collapse and built a Mediterranean trade empire
After the fall of Bronze Age empires, a handful of Phoenician city states emerged from Canaan to dominate Mediterranean trade. This chapter traces their survival, their alphabet, and how ports like ...
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The Phoenicians before Rome and Greece, how ancient seafarers from Canaan shaped the oldest cities of Spain
Long before Romans or Greeks, ancient seafarers from the Near East founded ports across Spain and the wider Mediterranean. With their own records lost and history written by rivals, this episode ...
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