The text below contains The Theology of the Phoenicians from Sanchoniatho. Sanchoniatho was of Phoenician descent and one of the most esteemed authors of his time. Second century Christian Bishop and Church Historian, Eusebius of Caesarea said that he wrote the truest...
“Now the Phoenicians who came with Cadmus, and to whom the Gephyraei belonged, introduced into Greece upon their arrival a great variety of arts, among the rest that of writing, whereof the Greeks till then had, as I think, been ignorant. And originally they...
“Of all the nations of their time, the Phoenicians stood in the front rank. In the practical arts, as well as in the exact sciences, they were in their own wide sphere, without a competitor. They were masons, dyers, glassblowers, workers in metal, and at the...
Benjamin Franklin had written on the Phoenicians: “This inscription, which you find to be Phoenician, is, I think, near Taunton (not Jannston, as you write it). There is some account of it in the old Philosophical Transactions. I have never been at the place,...
W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1905) had said of the Phoenicians: “It seems probable that the early Greeks were largely indebted to the Phoenicians for their knowledge of practical arithmetic or the art of calculation, and...
In his 1871 book Ancient America, John Denison Baldwin said this about the Phoenicians being the first people to establish colonies and cities filled with civilized life: “The known enterprise of the Phoenician race, and this ancient knowledge of America, so...
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