Who are the Phoenicians? The Phoenicians were the greatest sailors in the ancient world. They were famous for their great ships decorated with horse heads in honor of the sea god Yam, the brother of the god of death. The Phoenicians were also famous for their invention of the alphabet, and they were also called the Red Men. They are credited with inventing glass and colored glass. They would establish their own colonies, which later became independent states.

Aspects of the Phoenician civilization, the Phoenicians made many achievements, including:
And they worked on building temples to hold religious rites in them. They worshiped the sun, moon, lightning and thunder, in addition to the sea, wind and rain, and they thought that all of these were gods, the Phoenician alphabet, which is represented in other alphabets used today.

The discovery of the purple pigment, so they extracted it from the shells of the marigold, a type of oyster found near the Phoenician beaches. The founding of the city of Carthage, which is located in North Africa near the modern city of Tunisia. They established it as a trading site near the end of the ninth century BC. Shipbuilding, where the Phoenicians were from among the greatest merchants of their time and owed much of their prosperity to trade.

Economy in the Phoenician Civilization:
This people inhabited the eastern coast of the Mediterranean (the Lebanese coast in the time
present), he goes to the fact that the history of the Phoenicians dates back to three thousand years BC, and the economy flourished during their reign because of the surrounding geographical nature, the acumen and intuition enjoyed by the Phoenician traders, spreading their trade outside the borders of the Phoenician civilization.

The distinguished and strategic geographical support that made the Phoenician merchants a commercial intermediary between different civilizations, as well as the presence of distinguished craftsmen in the manufacture of pottery, silver and copper pots, and dyers. Which was developed several centuries ago in the southern Levant.

Religion In the Phoenician civilization, there was no single religion for the Phoenician cities, and therefore rituals differ from one city to another, they were allocating the gods to the areas of their daily lives such as agriculture, navigation and also wars. What was symbolized by the god Ra at the pharaohs.