Phoenicia

Phoenicia (/fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə/),[4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.[5][6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern Syria to Mount Carmel in modern Israel covering the entire coast of modern Lebanon.[7] Beyond their homeland, the Phoenicians extended through trade and colonization throughout the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.

Read. more about Phoenicia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia

Phoenician DNA & Descendants

Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNA

'More than 90 percent of the genetic ancestry of modern Lebanese is derived from ancient Canaanites, according to a paper published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Researchers supported by The Wellcome Trust were able to sequence the Canaanite genome from the remains of five individuals buried in the ancient port city of Sidon(modern Saïda, Lebanon) around 3,700 years ago. The results were compared against the DNA of 99 modern-day Lebanese residents'. - National Geographic. By Kristin Romey (July 27, 2017)

Red more about Phoenicians here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-lebanon-genetics-archaeology

20 years of excavation in Sidon, Lebanon

'On the coast of Lebanon, 30 km south of the capital Beirut lies the city of Sidon mentioned 38 times in the Old Testament and considered by some to be the more ancient and the most prominent of the Canaanite/Phoenician coastal cities. Highlighted in biblical accounts as being the “first born of Canaan”, Sidon’s inhabitants were the most well-known of Phoenician communities, to such an extent in fact that the designations Phoenician and Sidonian were often considered synonymous.' - CBRL Council for British Research in the Levant

Notable People of Phoenician Descent. Note: Phoenician & Canaanites were probably intermixed

Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos in 568 BC. His father, Mnesarchus, was a Phoenician merchant from Tyre, while his mother, Pythais, was from Samos. He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Pythagoras is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in

Scientist and Physicist, as qualified by the ancient Greeks, and founder of a school in Sidon that persisted till the 6th century, Mochus was the true creator of the theory of the atom.

Strabo, a Greek biographer (63BC-24AD), recorded in Geography: 16, 2, 24, “The theory of Democritus on the atom is of Phoenician origin. It is due to Mochus of Sidon.”

According to The Oxford Companion of Philosophy,

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia

Map of Phoenicia: Phoenician Cities & Trade Routes

Phoenician DNA & Descendants

Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNA

20 years of excavation in Sidon, Lebanon

Phoenicia

Phoenicians (Harvard University Press)

Notable People of Phoenician Descent. Note: Phoenician & Canaanites were probably intermixed

Phoenicia

Phoenicia

Map of Phoenicia: Phoenician Cities & Trade Routes

Phoenician DNA & Descendants

Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNA

20 years of excavation in Sidon, Lebanon

Phoenicia

Phoenicians (Harvard University Press)

Notable People of Phoenician Descent. Note: Phoenician & Canaanites were probably intermixed

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