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Latin alphabet stemmed from the Phoenician alphabet
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Beritus or Berytus, nowadays Beirut, had the first
School of Law in the Roman Empire
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The Bible owes its name to the Phoenician city of
Byblos
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King Salomon's great temple was built by
Phoenicians, in the style of Tyre's Melqart Temple, using Cedar wood
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Cedar wood was known in Egypt for its solidness and
nobleness
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King Salomon became late a worshipper of the
Phoenician Goddess Ashtarte
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The Pentateuch, Moses first books of the Old
Testament, was written in Phoenician script
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Phoenicians were the most important traders of the
Mediterranean.
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Phoenicians colonized the corners of the
Mediterranean, starting from Cyprus in the East, to Spain and
Gibraltar until the outer Atlantic coast and North West Africa.
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The Phoenicians reached north America BC and Punic
inscriptions in Massachusetts and Iowa voucher this.
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Jesus Christ visited Lebanon and among the first to
believe in him was a Phoenician woman
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The bishops of all Phoenician cities were
consecrated as bishops by the Apostles or their immediate successors
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St- Jerome referred to Tyre as the place where St.
Paul once knelt and called it Zarepath, Elijah's town.
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Phoenician language is still found today in Malta as
in Maltese is a mixture of Phoenician and other Mediterranean
languages.
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Phoenicians were skilled sailors and were employed
by conquerors to build up their war ship fleets
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Roman emperor Septimius Severus ( 193-211 AD )
descended from early Phoenician settlers and spoke with a Phoenician
accent
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Pythagoras was Phoenician and studied for about 3
years in the temples of Sidon, Tyre and byblos. His father was a
Phoenician merchant.
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Popes Anicetus(155-166 AD), John V (685-686 AD),
Sergius I(687-701 AD) and Gregory III(741-752 AD) were Phoenicians.
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Emperor Constantine was Phoenician
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Thales of Miletus was half Phoenician
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The Phoenicians had a rough idea about Pi(3.1416) at
the time of Hiram and the building of Salomon's temple.
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St. Frumentius, Phoenician from Tyre, is the one who
converted Ethiopia to Christianity
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Phoenician sacrifice of children to the gods was
practiced later on by many Semites such as Abraham in his known
attempt to sacrifice his son to God
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Mochus from Sidon wrote a work on the atomic theory
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Phoenicians were among the first to trace routes to
the western Mediterranean and beyond the Pillars of Hercules or the
Straits of Gibraltar , towards the Atlantic coasts of Africa and
Europe
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Phoenicians divided the circle into 360° and
established celestial navigation methods
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Europe owes its name to the Phoenician princess
Europa, daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor. Zeus, the
king of the gods, saw Europa and immediately fell in love with
her.Europa became the first queen of Crete and had by Zeus three sons:
King Minos of Crete, King Rhadamanthus of the Cyclades Islands, and,
according to some legends, Prince Sarpedon of Lycia. The goddess Venus
then told Princess Europa that the place Jupiter had taken her would
now be called Europe.
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The name Europa was given to one of Jupiter's 16
original moons. Europa is special, because it is one of the few moons
in our solar system that may have liquid water.
