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Location: Playa de la Isla , off the coast of Mazarron, Spain: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Site of a sunken ship: History; Founded: 7th–6th century BC: Abandoned: 7th–6th century BC: Periods: Iron Age: Cultures: Phoenician, Iberian: Site notes; Discovered: 1988 (Mazarrón I) 1994 (Mazarrón II): Condition: Conserved at the National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology in Cartagena: Ownership: Spain ...
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
The National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática - ARQVA) is a underwater archaeology museum in Cartagena in Murcia, Spain. It owns a large collection of pieces recovered from shipwrecks that begins with the Phoenician shipwrecks of Mazarrón and goes on into the 19th century. [ 1 ]
Herodotus believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain, [16] [17] a view shared centuries later by the historian Strabo. [18] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren, who noted that Greek geographers described "two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of ...
The Phoenician Ship Expedition is a re-creation of a 6th-century BCE Phoenician voyage conceived by Philip Beale.The replica of an ancient Phoenician ship departed from Syria in August 2008, to sail through the Suez Canal, around the Horn of Africa, and up the west coast of Africa, through the Strait of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to return to Syria.
The Phoenician shipwreck at Bajo de la Campana was the first potential Phoenician shipwreck between 850 and 600 BCE to be found, excavated and systematically studied in the Mediterranean region. [6] The cargo on this ship has provided important insights into the Phoenician's presence in Spain, specifically their trading networks and their ...
The History of Phoenicia [Histoire de la Phénicie]. Translated by Plummer, Andrew. Lockwood Press. ISBN 978-1-937040-82-6. Faust, Avraham (2021). The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-257872-3. Fischer, Steven Roger (2004). A History of Writing. Reaktion Books.
The Gozo Phoenician shipwreck is a seventh-century-BC shipwreck of a Phoenician trade ship lying at a depth of 110 meters (360 ft). The wreck was discovered in 2007 during a sonar survey off the coast of Malta 's Gozo island .