The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civilization fired the imagination of its contemporaries--the Jews in particular--inspiring terror among the Romans and Greeks, who depicted them as a cruel people who practiced human sacrifice. Their clients were the pharaohs and the Assyrians, their ships criss-crossed the Mediterranean, laden with the luxuries of the day such as wine, oil, grain, and mineral ore. Buried beneath the modern cities of Lebanon, and a few of Syria and Israel, ancient Phoenicia has resuscitated in this volume.

About the Author

Josette Elayi is a historian and researcher with degrees in Hebrew, Aramaic and Akkadian, and is an unrivaled expert on Phoenicia. She has taught at the Lebanese University in Beirut and Mustansiriye University in Baghdad and currently continues her research as an honorary researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is the author of nearly forty books, including Sargon II, King of Assyria (2017), The History of Phoenicia (2018) and Sennacherib, King of Assyria (2018). She has developed a new pluridisciplinary historical method combining epigraphy, numismatics, archaeology, economics and sociology.

Book Information
ISBN 9781937040819
Author Josette Elayi
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint Lockwood Press
Publisher Lockwood Press
Weight(grams) 505g