Archaeologists have discovered that Greeks, Italians, and Phoenicians coexisted on the Mediterranean island of Ischia, Italy.
Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern Africa, which controlled most of the trade of the western Mediterranean. It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed ...
Between the 11th and 6th centuries BCE, the Phoenicians established colonies and trading outposts around the ancient world. Wherever the Phoenicians went, they took their language with them ...