{"id":3149,"date":"2016-11-11T18:19:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:21:09","slug":"notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Notaries in Ancient Phoenicia, 1500 BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Notaries_in_Ancient_Phoenicia_1500_BC\" >Notaries in Ancient Phoenicia, 1500 BC<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Canaan\" >Canaan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Imports_and_Exports\" >Imports and Exports<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Land_of_Purple_People\" >Land of Purple People<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Phoenician_Alphabet_and_Scribes\" >Phoenician Alphabet and Scribes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Papyrus_Records_Destroyed\" >Papyrus Records Destroyed<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Seals_and_Notaries\" >Seals and Notaries<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Literature\" >Literature<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Colony_of_Carthage\" >Colony of Carthage<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-phoenicia-1500-bc\/#Phoenicians_in_America\" >Phoenicians in America<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Notaries_in_Ancient_Phoenicia_1500_BC\"><\/span>Notaries in Ancient Phoenicia, 1500 BC<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-Phoenicia-trade-routes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3152\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-Phoenicia-trade-routes.jpg\" alt=\"map Phoenicia trade routes\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Ancient <strong>Phoenicia<\/strong> was located in the region at the eastern end of the <strong>Mediterranean<\/strong> Sea. Phoenician city-states, ruled by kings (high priests), began to form around\u00a03200 BC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The major ports were\u00a0Tyre, Sidon, <strong>Beirut,<\/strong> and Gebal (<strong>Byblos<\/strong>), now all in <strong>Lebanon<\/strong>. Byblos had been trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia since 3000 BC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Phoenicians were master shipbuilders, navigators, sailors, builders, craftsmen, and merchant traders. They learned to navigate by the stars. Their ships could travel 100 miles per day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They sailed in fleets of cargo ships protected by warships with bronze-covered battering rams to destroy enemy ships. Warships had more oars for faster speeds, used for attack and ramming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By\u00a01200 BC, the <strong>Phoenicians<\/strong> had trading posts and colonies on many <strong>Aegean<\/strong> and Mediterranean islands, trading agreements with neighbors, occupied quarters in cities in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-in-ancient-egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egypt<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and had colonies along the north coast of <strong>Africa<\/strong> and coastal <strong>Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They traded with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-ancient-greece-360-bc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greece<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Rhodes, Cyprus, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/minoan-civilization-writing-seals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crete<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Egypt, and Mesopotamia and dared to travel beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar) into the Atlantic. A key to their trading success was the ability to adapt to the tastes of buyers in different countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Canaan\"><\/span>Canaan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the <strong>Old Testament,<\/strong> the region is called <strong>Canaan<\/strong>. Historians refer to the people\u00a0as Canaanites when talking about the culture before 1200 BC. It\u00a0is the promised land in <strong>Hebrew<\/strong>\u00a0scriptures to which <strong>Moses<\/strong> led the <strong>Israelites<\/strong> in the <strong>Exodus<\/strong> from Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 1200 BC, the coastal region was raided by the mysterious <strong>Sea Peoples<\/strong>. Some of them settled in the area\u00a0and were known as the <strong>Philistines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Imports_and_Exports\"><\/span>Imports and Exports<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-merchant-ship.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3159\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-merchant-ship.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenician merchant ship\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imports included male and female slaves, bales of linen, <strong>papyrus<\/strong>, rope, ebony, ivory, silk, amber, spices, incense, horses, gold, silver, copper, lead and tin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although best known for sea trade, the land-based <strong>Silk Road<\/strong> <strong>caravan<\/strong> trade in silk, spices, perfume, and incense passed through Phoenicia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goods were stored in great warehouses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exports\u00a0were\u00a0timbers from the <strong>cedars of Lebanon<\/strong>, cloth, fine linen, embroideries, blue and <strong>purple dyes<\/strong>, metalwork, inlaid furniture, blown glass, glass trinkets, pottery, wine, olive oil, cedar oil, gold and silver jewelry, nuts, figs, apricots, salt, dried fish, and perfume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phoenician artisans were skilled in wood, ivory, pottery, glass, metalworking, and\u00a0textile production.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Land_of_Purple_People\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tyre-Phoenicia-Royal-Purple-dye.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3156\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tyre-Phoenicia-Royal-Purple-dye.jpg\" alt=\"Tyre Phoenicia royal purple dye\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Land of Purple People<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tyrian purple<\/strong>, known as <strong>Royal Purple<\/strong>, was an expensive violet-purple dye used by royalty and wealthy elite to color hems and garments and for stripes in ship sails. Phoenicia comes from the <strong>Greek<\/strong> word <strong>phoinike<\/strong>, for purple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dye\u00a0was made from the secretions of the <strong>Murex<\/strong> sea-snail. About 10,000 snails were needed to make 1 gram of dye. The purple dye was 3 times more expensive than gold. It stained the hands of dye workers, earning the name &#8220;purple people&#8221;. Other species of snails produced a blue dye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note: Tyrian purple is a dark shade with\u00a0a\u00a0hexadecimal web color code of #66023c.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #66023c;\">Tyrian Purple<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">\u00a0(red 66, green 02, blue 3c).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Phoenician_Alphabet_and_Scribes\"><\/span>Phoenician Alphabet and Scribes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-alphabet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3154\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-alphabet.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenician alphabet\" width=\"400\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Phoenicia was the birthplace of the <strong>alphabet<\/strong>, brought to Greece by the Phoenician <strong>Kadmus<\/strong>, before the 8th century BC.\u00a0The oldest known representation of the Phoenician alphabet is on the carved limestone <strong>sarcophagus<\/strong> of <strong>King Ahiram<\/strong> of <strong>Byblos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The marks made by the scribes, with a stylus on damp clay or papyrus, capture the sound of a word. This required an alphabet of individual letters.\u00a0The letters were designed so most of the shapes are angular and straight to write quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was comprised of 22 consonants, known as\u00a0an <strong>abjad<\/strong> writing system, written right to left, with\u00a0no vowels. The Greeks added vowels. The Romans made a few changes for\u00a0the <strong>Latin alphabet,<\/strong>\u00a0now the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The widespread use of the alphabet across the Mediterranean increased literacy beyond an elite group of royalty, priests, and scribes, who had previously used more complex writing to control access to information by the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scripts in use up to the second millennium BC (in Egypt, Mesopotamia, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/ancient-chinese-writing-shang-dynasty-1600-bc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China<\/a><\/strong><\/span>) required the scribe to learn hundreds of characters, each representing a word or syllable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alphabet was the first widespread phonetic script and affected the social structures of many civilizations. Its simplicity allowed it to be used in many languages and allowed common people to learn to read and write.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alphabet provided\u00a0a simple and easy way to keep track of trades. Since money was involved, people were highly motivated to learn the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the alphabet came the pen, ink, papyrus, parchment, and finally paper.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Papyrus_Records_Destroyed\"><\/span>Papyrus Records Destroyed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/papyrus-bill-of-sale-donkey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3179\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/papyrus-bill-of-sale-donkey.jpg\" alt=\"papyrus bill of sale donkey\" width=\"100\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Phoenician merchants, government, military, religions, and <strong>scribes<\/strong> kept records on <strong>papyrus<\/strong>. They imported so much papyrus on rolls from Egypt that the Greeks used the name <strong>Byblos<\/strong>, for the great Phoenician port, to refer to the ancient paper. The name <strong>Bible<\/strong>, or &#8220;the book,&#8221; derives from Byblos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black ink was made of soot, water, and gum arabic. Red ink was made of iron, water, and gum arabic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Phoenicians reportedly had a rich literature and an advanced code of laws, it was lost in antiquity.\u00a0Their writings, mostly on fragile papyrus, were destroyed by conquerors <strong>Nebuchadnezzar<\/strong> and <strong>Alexander<\/strong>, or disintegrated over time. More records survived from Carthage and trading partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They developed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/marine-protest-maritime-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maritime laws<\/a><\/strong><\/span> used in the <strong>Law of Rhodes<\/strong>, Lex Rhodia. The first\u00a0law school was founded in <strong>Beirut<\/strong> and taught Roman law for three centuries until it was destroyed by an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sanchuniathon<\/strong> was an early Phoenician sage, priest, and writer from Beirut in 1400 BC. He assembled the ancient history from the traditions of individual cities, and from records and inscriptions on sun pillars in temples. In the 1st century AD, <strong>Philo of Byblos<\/strong> wrote a <strong>Phoenician History<\/strong> in nine volumes, translating the work of Sanchuniathon from Phoenician to Greek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Sanchuniathon, knowledge started with <strong>Taautus<\/strong>, a god from Byblos, who discovered the use of letters and the writing of records. This scribe of the gods bore a tablet, pen, and palm-branch (Phoenix tree). He attended the judgment of the souls, invented writing, and served as a wise teacher and peacemaker.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Seals_and_Notaries\"><\/span>Seals and Notaries<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/National-Geographic-Quest-for-the-Phoenicians.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3166\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/National-Geographic-Quest-for-the-Phoenicians.jpg\" alt=\"National Geographic Quest for the Phoenicians\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Many <strong>stamp seals<\/strong> and <strong>cylinder seals<\/strong> have been found throughout the <strong>Levant<\/strong> (eastern Mediterranean region). Seals were made of stone or clay and\u00a0were used to make impressions in clay or wax to seal a document. \u00a0Many seal impressions, known as <strong>bullae<\/strong>, have survived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seals are mentioned in the Bible. They contained symbols, patterns, faces, gods, animals, names, and text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priests acted as <strong>scribes<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>notaries<\/strong>, standardized weights and measures, and oversaw banking and warehousing.\u00a0Temples served as warehouses and banks, attracting private deposits of silver and goods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The extensive trade of Phoenicia required much record-keeping, contracts, loans, insurance, peace treaties, letters of introduction, and correspondence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although papyrus records have been\u00a0destroyed, some ancient writings survived as <strong>inscriptions<\/strong> in clay, stone, ivory, gold, silver, or bronze. In rare cases, reusable wax writing tablets have been found inside large clay pottery jars. They were used for drafting documents.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Literature\"><\/span>Literature<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Journey of Wen-Amen<\/strong>, describes a priest of the Amen temple at Karnak.\u00a0 During the reign of Ramses\u00a0III of Egypt, Wen-Amen sailed in a Phoenician ship to Gebal (Byblos), to\u00a0buy cedar timbers for the construction of the\u00a0great barge Userhet of <strong>Amen-Re<\/strong>, king of gods,\u00a0of 130 cubits length, inlaid with gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journey describes <strong>scribes<\/strong> and <strong>journals<\/strong> used for writing letters, ship manifests, and record keeping. An Egyptian scribe earned about 15 deben of copper per month. A\u00a0<strong>deben<\/strong> was a weight unit, about 91 grams.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Colony_of_Carthage\"><\/span>Colony of Carthage<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-war-ship.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3158\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenician-war-ship.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenician war ship\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Over time, Phoenicia was invaded by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians, and Romans. But, they had established many distant colonies. The strategically important colony of <strong>Carthage<\/strong> (Qart-hadash) &#8220;New City,&#8221; in current <strong>Tunisia<\/strong>, southwest of <strong>Sicily<\/strong>, was founded in 800 BC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 573 BC, when <strong>Tyre<\/strong> was destroyed by\u00a0King <strong>Nebuchadnezzar<\/strong> of<strong> Babylon<\/strong>, Carthage became the main Phoenician naval port.<\/p>\n<p>In the 6th century BC, <strong>Hanno the Navigator<\/strong> sailed with 60 ships from Carthage and explored the coast of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/timbuktu-mali-manuscripts-and-libraries-1300-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, as far south as the Niger River, establishing trading posts and colonies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 450 BC, Carthaginians sailed to <strong>England<\/strong>, and also began to trade regularly with <strong>West Africa<\/strong>, exchanging goods for <strong>gold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 332 BC, Phoenicia was conquered by <strong>Alexander the Great<\/strong> of Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 145 BC, during the <strong>Punic Wars<\/strong>, the Phoenician colony at Carthage was destroyed by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/roman-law-influence-on-notaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roman Empire<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and the soil was sown with salt to prevent crops from growing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 64 BC, Phoenicia\u00a0became part of the Roman province of <strong>Syria<\/strong>, and faded into history.\u00a0The <strong>Arab Conquest<\/strong> came\u00a0in 636 AD.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Phoenicians_in_America\"><\/span>Phoenicians in America<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Greek historian <strong>Herodotus<\/strong>, Phoenician sailors, at the request of Pharaoh Necho II (610\u2013595 BC), circumnavigated <strong>Africa<\/strong>, two thousand years before Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1497.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carthaginians may have discovered and followed the Canary and North Equatorial westward ocean currents from the west coast of Africa to the <strong>Caribbean<\/strong>, two thousand years before <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notary-with-christopher-columbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They\u00a0may have sent ships on follow-up ocean voyages to <strong>Mexico<\/strong>, North and South America. Gold coins minted in Carthage bear a pattern resembling a map, controversially argued as depicting America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One theory is that when Rome destroyed Carthage, fleeing Carthaginians escaped by ship and sailed across the Atlantic, perhaps to sites on the Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan. They were battle-hardened warriors with long, thick beards, helmets, spears, and shields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were\u00a0known as <strong>Toltecs<\/strong>\u00a0by the natives, with artifacts found in Mexico and Arizona. Mexican history describes bearded warriors who arrived by ships from the east. Bearded statues in Mexico resemble bearded artwork in Phoenicia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An inscription on Tumamoc Hill facing Tucson Arizona uses\u00a0ancient Phoenician letters. It is an offering to Tanit and Baal, the gods of the Sea Peoples.\u00a0The ancient name for the Pima and Papago Indians was Hohokam, meaning Sea Peoples.\u00a0Tumamoc Hill was the former Toltec fortress city of Rhoda, perhaps named for Rhodes, a Phoenician colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Image Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Map of Phoenicia, trade routes, by Yom (talk\u00a0\u00b7 contribs) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)], via Wikimedia Commons<br \/>\n2. Phoenician merchant ship<br \/>\n3. Tyrian Royal Purple,\u00a0by CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)], via Wikimedia Commons<br \/>\n4. Phoenician alphabet<br \/>\n5. papyrus document, by Mystharion, son of Heron, fl. 126. Bill of sale for a donkey, 126. 1 leaf\u00a0: papyrus\u00a0; 19.3 x 7.2 cm. MS Gr SM2223 Houghton Library, Harvard University [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<br \/>\n6. National Geographic documentary, Quest for the Phoenicians, 2004, 55 minutes<br \/>\n7. 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Phoenician city-states, ruled by kings (high priests), began to form around\u00a03200 BC. The major ports were\u00a0Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, and Gebal (Byblos), now all in Lebanon. Byblos had been trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia since 3000 BC. The Phoenicians were master shipbuilders, navigators, sailors, builders, craftsmen, and merchant traders. They learned to navigate by the stars. Their ships could travel 100 miles per day. They sailed in fleets of cargo ships protected by warships with bronze-covered battering rams to destroy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[920],"tags":[2145,2141,2146,2142,1418,3065,2140,513,2139,201,5,1200,2138,2147,2144,869,2143,1169,238,887,2148],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notary-history","tag-alphabet","tag-canaan","tag-carthage","tag-cedar","tag-gold","tag-hanno","tag-lebanon","tag-maritime-law","tag-mediterranean","tag-mexico","tag-notary","tag-papyrus","tag-phoenicia","tag-punic-wars","tag-purple-dye","tag-roman-empire","tag-royal-purple","tag-scribe","tag-seal","tag-silk-road","tag-toltecs","has_thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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