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Byblos: Phoenician and Roman ruins
Byblos: Phoenician and Roman ruins Phoenician and Roman ruins at Byblos, Lebanon.

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Phoenician necklacePhoenician necklace made from glass beads, 3rd–1st century bce.
Basalt relief stele of King Kilamuwa from Sam'al, Turkey, showing a robed figure beside lines of Phoenician script and an ornate symbol above the text.
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Phoenician writingA basalt relief stela of King Kilamuwa from the 9th century bce showing Phoenician writing. The stela was found at an archaeological site in Turkey.

Phoenician, person who inhabited one of the city-states of ancient Phoenicia, such as Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, or Beirut, or one of their colonies. Located along eastern Mediterranean trade routes, the Phoenician city-states produced notable merchants, traders, and colonizers. By the 2nd millennium bce they had settled in the Levant, North Africa, Anatolia, and Cyprus. They traded wood, cloth, dyes, embroideries, wine, and decorative objects; ivory and wood carving became their specialties, and the work of Phoenician goldsmiths and metalsmiths was well known. Their alphabet became the basis of the Greek alphabet.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Zeidan.