1. PHOENICIAN TRADE ROUTES

2. Model of an ancient Phoenician warship, a bireme

3. Carthage was founded as a Phoenician colony near modern Tunis

4. Cyprus was the site of early Phoenician and Greek colonies

5. Greek and Phoenician sailors used the location as a safe port.

6. Definition of Baal. : any of numerous Canaanite and Phoenician local deities.

7. A coin depicting a Phoenician ship, third to fourth century B.C.E.

8. Astarte definition is - the Phoenician goddess of fertility and of sexual love.

9. King Solomon of Israel formed joint business ventures with Phoenician King Hiram.

10. In their quest for profit, Phoenician explorers ventured into the Atlantic Ocean.

11. Bloodstone honors Brigit, the Irish Goddess of Fertility; and Dione, the Phoenician Earth Goddess.

12. Astarte - phoenician goddess of fertility - Astarte stock illustrations Witchcraft, Demons Astaroth and Astarte

13. Carthage was an ancient Phoenician city located on the northern coast of Africa

14. [אָרַשׂ] verb Betroth (Mishna ארס, Phoenician ארש in proper name, Lag Sem i

15. Likely, Phoenician colonizers with seafaring experience contributed greatly to the Cypriots’ naval technology.

16. 6 Dismay will also be felt by the people of the Phoenician seacoast.

17. There Antiochus III ‘threw up a siege rampart,’ taking that Phoenician seaport in 198 B.C.E.

18. He commanded 4,000 Numidian, 2,000 Iberian, 4,000 Gallic and 450 Libyan-Phoenician cavalry.

19. Aleph (n.) name for the Hebrew and Phoenician first letter, ancestor of A, c

20. Perhaps workmen accompanying the timbers sailed aboard Phoenician ships, similar to the scale model.

21. [Middle English Arbitre, from Old French, from Latin arbiter, of Phoenician origin; see ʕrb in Semitic roots .]

22. Baal is a Canaanite and Phoenician deity and the son of the chief god El

23. Variants of the name “Astarte” can be found in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Egyptian and Etruscan languages

24. Fundamentally, Maltese is a Semitic tongue, the same as Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Carthaginian and Ethiopian.

25. Baalbek This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshipped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period

26. Etymologically, Alpha came from aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet), meaning "ox" in Phoenician.

27. Experience their legacy in Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches.

28. Epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet and the Phoenician Word for sun derives from that root.

29. Phoenician King Hiram of Tyre, also very active in the shipping business, cooperated with Solomon in this enterprise.

30. Astarte, Phoenician goddess, terracotta statue, illustration from Histoire des grecs, volume 1, Formation du peuple grec by Victor Duruy .

31. Aramaic language, Semitic language of the Northern Central, or Northwestern, group that was originally spoken by the ancient Middle Eastern people known as Aramaeans. It was most closely related to Hebrew, Syriac, and Phoenician and was written in a script derived from the Phoenician alphabet

32. Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, north of Beirut, in the Beqaa Valley.

33. Many signs that reappear in the later Phoenician alphabet were assumed by Mendenhall to have a similar phonetic value.

34. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was adapted by Arameans from the Phoenician alphabet and became a distinct script by the 8th century BC

35. Mem (also spelled Meem or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its value is IPA .

36. Carthage, Phoenician Kart-hadasht, Latin Carthago, great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, now a residential suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia

37. Byblos definition, an ancient Phoenician seaport near the modern city of Beirut, Lebanon: chief port for the export of papyrus: site now partially excavated

38. Around the same time as Egyptians were incubating eggs, Phoenician merchants introduced chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of European livestock.

39. The book with very little exaggeration might be called "in praise of the Achaian nation." He ascribed great importance to the Phoenician element in Greece and claimed that Ulysses and Ithaca showed "distinct Phoenician characters." But "the two ideas in Homer that are really cardinal, central, generative, are the nation, and its reflection in

40. Most researchers believe Baalbek was a Phoenician sanctuary dedicated to the God Baal, even though most people would agree that the site was built by the Romans

41. It was used to write the Aramaic language and had displaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, itself a derivative of the Phoenician alphabet, for the writing of Hebrew.

42. Similarly, Christians still hold a grudge over the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, blaming Muslims for decimating a prosperous Phoenician civilization and then Arabizing and Islamizing it

43. Alpha (uppercase Α; lowercase α) is the first letter of the Greek Alphabet.The Greek Alphabet is the ancestor of modern languages and is derived from the Phoenician Alphabet

44. This would mean that the Phoenician and Canaan's had at least one similar word in common, for the same people, but in different languages and at different points in time.

45. The city of Carthage, founded by Phoenician colonists, and long the great opponent of Rome in the duel for supremacy in the civilized world, was destroyed by a Roman army, 146 B.C

46. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna.

47. The term abjad takes its name from the old order of the Arabic alphabet's consonants 'alif, bā', jīm, dāl, though the word may have earlier roots in Phoenician or Ugaritic.

48. Theta (uppercase Θ, lowercase θ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet , derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 9.

49. There is an opinion among some occultists and academics that demon Beelzebub is synonymous with demon Baal/Bael, both demons presumably originating from ancient Phoenician deities with a similar name and status.

50. The names Canaan and Canaanite occur in cuneiform, Egyptian, and Phoenician writings from about the 15th century bce as well as in the Old Testament.In these sources, “Canaan” refers sometimes to an area encompassing all of

51. Archaeological evidence confirms that Phoenician traders from Tyre founded the city of Qart-Ḥadašt—or "New City," as Carthage was known in its native language—in the second half of the ninth century BC.

52. Beelzebub, originally an idol of the Canaanites, means “Lord of the Flies.” The name is a distortion of Baal-zebul, the chief Canaanite or Phoenician god, meaning “Lord of the Divine Abode” or “Lord of the Heavens.”

53. In 332 BC, after dealing the Achaemenids a drastic defeat at the Battle of Issus, Alexander the Great went south, to receive the submission of many Phoenician cities and to deny the Achaemenid navy a base of operations

54. Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt , Hebrew Bēt ב ‎, Aramaic Bēth , Syriac Bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic Bāʾ ب.Its sound value is a voiced bilabial stop b or a voiced labiodental fricative v .

55. One word of the "Amorite" language has survived — the name Senir (not "Shenir") for Mount Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9); but may not this be the Canaanitish name as opposed to the Phoenician (Sirion) on the one side and the Hebrew

56. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three

57. Originally from Ancient Egypt and disseminated by Phoenician sailors, it is a rare and exceptional product appreciated throughout the world; especially in Asia, Japan, China but also in Taiwan, which also produces its own botargo The Bottarga has a very particular assertive taste with a firm consistency.

58. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three

59. Carthage was a Phoenician city-state on the coast of North Africa (the site of modern-day Tunis) which, prior the conflict with Rome known as the Punic Wars (264-146 BCE), was the largest, most affluent, and powerful political entity in the Mediterranean.

60. Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an inquiry into Lebanese intellectual, cultural, and political life as incarnated in the ideas, and as illustrated by the times, works, and activities of Charles Corm (1894–1963)

61. (2Ch 1:15; Ec 2:4-6) Although the Phoenician workers of King Hiram were employed in the cutting of timbers in Lebanon for the temple construction, the record does not support the view often advanced that the temple at Jerusalem was primarily and essentially the work of Phoenicians.

62. ‘We go Ashore by dinghy at a pretty stone jetty surrounded by dense trees and rhododendron bushes.’ ‘As we scrambled Ashore, more experienced sailors were taking to the water with glee aboard a fleet of dinghies and catamarans.’ ‘When he was very small a group of Phoenician sailors came Ashore for trading and stayed over a year.’

63. Biblio- word-forming element meaning "book" or sometimes "Bible," from Greek Biblion "paper, scroll," also the ordinary word for "a book as a division of a larger work;" originally a diminutive of byblos "Egyptian papyrus." This is perhaps from Byblos, the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece (modern Jebeil, in Lebanon; for sense evolution compare parchment).