A sacred pool was built about 2,500 years ago when the island was the site of a Phoenician city. It was flanked by temples and had a statue of a god on a plinth in the center. Sapienza University ...

LONDON, May 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo Art Auctions is proud to announce a landmark sale. Fine Ancient Art – Shipwrecked Phoenician Treasures, taking place on 7th June 2025 at 15:00 GMT ...

The ship was a replica of a 2,000-year-old Phoenician vessel. It completed a 5-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, which followed a similar path taken by Christopher Columbus centuries ago.

Phoenicians settled on Motya between 800 B.C. and 750 B.C. The sacred pool, including a pedestal in the center that originally supported a statue of the Phoenician god Ba’al, was built between ...

Founded, according to legend, around 1100 B.C. as Gadir (meaning “walled” in Phoenician), Cádiz became a key colony for the Phoenicians. Here, they regularly came into contact with local ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A replica ship sailed into South Florida after several months at sea. Five months and 6,000 miles later, the Phoenicia — a replica of a 600 B.C. Phoenician ship — arrived at ...

Middle Eastern Phoenician city-states eventually fell to other groups, but the culture thrived farther west—most notably in Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, until its destruction in 146 BC.

A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available in this link. LONDON, May 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo Art Auctions is proud to announce a landmark sale. Fine Ancient Art – ...

NEWS 23 April 2025 Ancient DNA reveals Phoenicians’ surprising genetic ancestry Phoenician civilization thrived across the Mediterranean for more than 1,000 years.