Phoenician Celebrities and Civilization

• Western/Latin and other alphabets come from the Phoenician alphabet?
• Beritus or Berytus (modern Beirut, Lebanon) had a very important School of Law in the Roman Empire?
• The Bible is called thus because it refers to the Phoenician city of Byblos?
• King Solomon's great Temple was built in the style of Tyre's Melqart Temple by Phoenician artisans using the Cedars of Lebanon?
• The Egyptian Pharoahs employed Phoenician cedar for their wood needs?
• King Solomon, in his old age, became a worshipper of the Phoenician goddess Ashtarte?
• Melchizedek, the King of Salem (King of Jerusalem) and Priest of the Most High God (El Elion), who offered bread and wine to Abraham, was Phoenician?
• The Pentateuch (Moses' first five books, if not more, of the the Old Testament Bible, the Torah) was/were written down (transliterated) in Phoenician script?
• Jesus Christ visited Phoenicia and among the first to believe in him was a Phoenician woman?
• The bishops of all Phoenician cities were consecrated as bishops by the Apostles or their immediate successors?
• Tyre, Sidon and other Phoenician Christian cities and towns provided rest-stops and shelters for the Apostles on their way to convert the world?
• St. Jerome referred to Tyre as the place where St. Paul once knelt; and called Zarephath, Elijah's town?
• Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa?
• Phoenicians were the first to use the Pole Star for navigation?
• Phoenicians were able traders throughout the Mediterranean?
• Phoenicians colonized the far corners of the Mediterranean from the Island of Cyprus in the East to Spain and Gibraltar including the outer Atlantic coast and North Africa in the West?
• Britain was the Phoenicians' secret treasure of tin where the name "Britain" may be coming from Barr (land) of Tannic (Tin)? Hence Britannia did not come from Prutani, the name applied to the Celts by the Romans, and some claim that the Celts were Phoenicians.
• The Phoenicians reached North America BC and Punic inscriptions in Massachusetts and Iowa confirm this fact?
• In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer mentions Phoenicia, Phoenicians and Phoenician cities.
• The Phoenician possessed the science or art of dentistry as evident by the fine braces on a lower jaw of a scull?
• The Phoenician language is still spoken today in Malta (or Maltese is a mixture of Phoenician/Punic and other Mediterranean languages) ?
• To beef up their naval powers, conquerors employed the Phoenicians in building warship-fleets?
• The Phoenicians raised elephants on farms?
• The first parliament ever to convene in the Middle East met in the Phoenician confederate city of Tripoli?
• Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193 - 211 AD) descended from early Phoenician settlers and spoke with a Phoenician accent?
• Pythagoras was Phoenician and was initiated into the 'Ancient Mysteries' of the Phoenicians c. 548 B.C. and studied for about 3 years in the temples of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos and that his father was a Phoenician merchant from Tyre?
• Archimedes c.287 B.C.-212 B.C., Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor, died during the Roman assault on Syracuse while designing a catapult and the Carthaginians fought on his side to defend the city.
• Thales of Miletus (who was half Phoenician), one of the first great scientists, is said to have forecast the solar eclipse of the year 585 BC.
• Zeno of Citium was a glowing star in the pre-Socratic age but was ridiculed in Athens for his Phoenician appearance.
• Popes Anicetus (155 - 166 AD), John V (685-686 AD), Sergius I (687-701 AD) and Gregory III (741-752 AD) and Constantius were Phoenicians?
• Aristotle held up the constitution of Carthage as a model.
• Hasdrubal-Clitomachus added to Arcesilas a critical interpretation of certitude which makes him a forerunner of modern thought.
• St. Augustine was Phoenician. He wrote "...there was a great deal of virtue and wisdom in the Punic books".
• St. Jerome believed Punic erotic poetry to be pernicious and described it as "lewd".
• Many parts of the Old Testament were plagiarized from Phoenician literature, poetry, and religion, similar to plagiarizing of the Book of Job (for example ) from Babylonian tales?
• Phoenician sacrifice of children to the gods was copied/practiced by many Semites such as Abraham's attempt to sacrifice his son?
• The Phoenicians had a rough knowledge about pi (3.1416) at the time of Hiram and the building of Solomon's Temple?
• St. Frumentius, Phoenician from Tyre, converted Ethiopia to Christianity?
• Mochus, a Sidonian, wrote a work on the atomic theory.

Ref: www.Phenoecia.org