The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Roman elites wore purple, and the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra even painted the sails of her ships purple ... while disadvantageous for trading, was ideal because of its “access to the marine ...

the Tagus River mouth was the perfect natural harbor where merchants and sailors could safely dock their ships. Over the centuries, Alis Ubbo was an important trading for the Phoenicians and ...

Roman elites wore purple, and the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra even painted the sails of her ships purple. Making the era’s most ... The site’s location, while disadvantageous for trading, was ideal ...

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To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

By the early first millennium BCE, Phoenician cities had established a vast maritime network of trading posts as far as Iberia, spreading their culture, religion, and language throughout the ...

Phoenician civilization emerged more than 3,000 ... to Greek and Latin letters — religious practices and maritime trading economies. Many researchers have presumed that their inhabitants also ...