One of the most underrated peoples in history, considering how much they contributed. Most records of them come from their enemies, Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews.
I aree. I would not really called Hebrews their enemies. They had quite close ties and trade was a big factor between Israel and Phonecian cities. Also some information about for instance currency used in Kingdom of Israel comes from archeological sites in former Phonecia, so sometimes it is other way around.
The Hebrews weren't their enemies. Where did you get that from? On the contrary - the bible says the Phoenician kings had good relations with the Israelite kings and helped to build their temples.
After the agricultural, industrial and scientific revolutions, it won't impact anyone's life. The British were far more influential as innovators, traders and empire builders. (We're even using their language to communicate.)
They did for sure, this is attested by Egyptian records (the Egyptians paid for the trip) and the most notorious evidence of its truthfulness is something that raised many eyebrows back in the day: they claimed to have seen the Sun to the North at noon. Another great Phoenician (Carthaginian) sailor was Hanno the navigator, who traveled all the way to Cameroon (documenting an eruption of the volcano of the same name) and further south maybe to Congo but didn't find anywhere interesting to trade with so they came back empty-handed. More difficult to believe is their alleged arrival to America based on some stuff found in Brazil (unsure of the details right now) but in any case it's clear to me that if Carthage would have won the Punic wars, America would have been "discovered" by Westerners a thousand years earlier than it was. Those people were real sailors, not like landlubber Romans. As for Scandinavia, it's now clear that Greeks went all the way to that area, so why not Phoenicians whom we know were trading at Cornwall for tin?
@@EpimetheusHistory they were i belive the first outsiders to reach the coast of west africa which is actually pretty impressive considering it was easier to cross the sahara desert that particular tropical region is difficult for sailing apparently greek accounts say that hano the navigator was trading with mysterious men past the pillars of Hercules historians believing those mysterious men to be the sonnike peoples and other carthage accounts of encountering tiny men near what some believe is Cameroon possibly mubuti pygmies en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soninke_Wangara
@@LuisAldamiz "they claimed to have seen the Sun to the North at noon". This is probably the most amazing statement I've ever heard about an ancient civilization. How could they have known that unless they had actually crossed the Equator? And how far South did they go? Did they reach the Sinai peninsula from the south? How did they equip their ships? How many people did they contact? So many questions
Fun fact: Many uncovered grave stones of Carthaginians read "sons of Tyre". Carthage made annual voyages to their smaller sister city to give trbute in heaps of gold and resources. Carthaginians never seemed to have lost the connection to the motherland.
Manaqa...The motherland of Carthagenians were native black and brown Africans.The Phoenicians were Egyptians.The obvious truths of this history are coming to fuision.In addition native Africans inhabited Carthage long before the Egyptians settled there.
@@matiusbond6052 Native Africans were being hunted by lions, crocs, and hyenas and trampled by elephants lol. Even the people of the land of Kush, the region south of Egypt, were actually just ancient Arabs.
Both of the two earlier comments are wrong. Carthage was not black, and the kushites were Africans not arabs. That's like calling the ancient Egyptians, Arabs Arabs weren't even in Africa enmass at that point
@@muhammadedwards8425 10% of comments on any video on ancient history will be people asserting that their own nation or ethnicity are in fact the centre of the universe
I'm Portuguese and we learn in school about how the Phoenicians and Carthaginians influenced the Iberia language and culture but we aren't even taught from where those 2 nations came from ! Ty for this video. Also, dude from the thumbnail looks badass
I don't see that much of influence because the Iberian Peninsula was romanized to a great degree later (two emperor were patricians born there) and while the Lusitanians kept fighting Romans for some time, the majority of local inhabitants of what would be labelled later as Hispania, were likely to be ethnically Celts. Even after Roman collapse it was the Visigoths who took over, and in general they assimilated more of the local culture, than imposed theirs (for example, they eventually converted from Arianism to Trinitarianism) only with the Muslim invasion, there was a big shift in local culture and language, that not only evolved naturally as Latin did everywhere, but also assimilated Arabic words.
@@Neomalthusiano It wasn't just the Lusitanians who kept fighting the Romans. It took the Romans just over 2 centuries even after the fall of Carthage and Hannibal to subdue and Romanize most of the Celtic and Iberian tribes in Hispania. They lost a few legions in the process. I read somewhere that even the women from some of the tribes in the north charged the Romans never showing their backs to them, preferring to die in battle or even choosing to kill themselves and their children rather than be taken as slaves by the Romans. th-cam.com/video/itlWI8Y9-kg/w-d-xo.html
edstar83 The Celtiberian groups to hold out longest against Romanization were the Astures and the Cantabri of the North. Caesar Augustus himself had to personally lead his legions deep into the Cantabrian highlands and have his generals bribe the most corruptible elements of the neighboring lowland clans in order to finally put an end to the protracted Cantabrian Wars. (Some of the surviving Cantabri would go on to accompany the Romans later in various campaigns in Britannia.) Interestingly, the Cantabri [still strongly Celtic in orientation and among the least Romanized groups inhabiting the peninsula] were the first Iberian group to be formally integrated into the nobility of the Visigothic court - in recognition of the critical role they played in aiding Don Pelagius’ forces in the destruction of the Muslim horde during the battle of Covadonga. This Celtibero-Gothic union was formalized via the marriage of Pelagius’ daughter to the son of Peter of Cantabria. the union of Don Pelagius’ daughter and the son of Duke Fruela of Cantabria. (They would go on to have an heir who would be formally recognized as the first of king of Hispania, Alfonso I of Asturies.)
This Badass is Hamicar Barka, the Phoenician warrior from Carthage! (Just joking!) But my young compatriots look just as handsome or even better! Haha...
The earliest rendition of a useable Alphabetic script was from the Canaanite city of Ugarit (just north of Arvad of the coast of the Levant in modern day Syria), just before the bronze age collapse 1300-1190 BC. The Ugaritic alphabet is the direct ancestor of the later Phoenician alphabet which they exposed the entire Mediterranean world which other Alphabetic scripts evolved from -One of which I am using now to write this comment
Indeed! The Ugaritic alphabet comes from proto-sinatic script, which is a simplification of Egyptian hieratic, which is in turn a quick way to write the hieroglyphs. This means that the Phoenician alphabet, and by extension the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic scripts are all descendants of the hieroglyphs!
I doesn't really get better than this. What I love about Epimetheus' videos is that they are extremely concise, but filled with enough detail to pique one's interest and point us in the right direction for further research.
I feel somewhat sorry for the Phoenicians, just because they settled in North Africa, now we have Hoteps and other crazies trying to claim that Carthaginians were Sub Saharan Africans and that Hannibal was as dark as a ninja
You guys are talking about the African-American Bantus from west Africa who claim everything , The Phoenicians are Afroasiatic people from the semitic branch, They're related to Ethiopians who are also Semitic and Somalis who are Cushitic, Africa is a continent and sub-saharan Africa is just a geographic location not a race or ethnicity
Turkic nationalists do this as well and so did the Nazis to an extent with the whole Aryan thing. It’s not just unique to Afrocentrist circles. Typically nationalists try to claim credit for events they personally had nothing to do with of people they never met to try to make up for their own personal lack of accomplishments in life. It’s quite pitiful really.
@@zyzmys That's wrong the Phoenicians were Canaanites (the Canaanites where descendants of Kham: the son of No'akh) The Ethiopians ain't Shemetic! The Ethiopians are Khamitic! As is also the Somalis. And these "Bantus" that you had mentioned either came from Kham or they came from Shem.... they didn't come from nobody!
Phoenicians inhabited Levant Especially Palestine they were cannantes There are some Spanish cites that funded by Phoenicians referring to Palestinian cities like cadiz
Yeah but Lebanese have been mixed with Arabs, Greeks, French , Armenians and Turks. Saying your just one thing is king of contradicting and certainly deceiving.
Sorry to break the news but most Lebanese people have arab blood and those who do have Phoenician blood aren’t pure they’re mixed with other ethnicities like Turks and Arabs
@@GODOBER Yes they well are. The people today inhabiting the Levant, North-Africa and East-Africa who call themselves 'Arab' do not descend from the true Gulf Arabs from the south. There are significant differences between the Gulf Arabs and non Gulf Arabs, Gulf Arabs tend to show very high to tremendous frequencies of haplogroup J1, whilst Levantines show significant frequencies of J1, J2, E, R1b and T.
Great video, it is tragic that the history of such great explores who could rival the Greeks has been lost, and that they have disapeared unlike others like the Persians, Greeks and Assyrians.
thanks to the romans who destroyed such knowledge and thanks to the mongols that destroyed the house of wisdom imagine if none of them destroyed a thing and yet they take it and study it ! we could be now at this moment a tYPE 1 civilization
@@mrenigma1564Maybe they did not distroy and took it and it got distroyed when rome was falling apart, archeology could still uncover this knowledge in italy
Nope, the Israelites (who descend from the same people -- the Canaanites -- and EVEN TODAY share J2-M172 DNA with Druze/other Phoenicians) also used deep purple frome a particular anthropod species for THEIR royalty, and EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL KINGS then spread/emulated that, and everything else they learned in the Torah about Davidic Kingdom, but Euro Kings knew next-to-nothing about Phoenicia using purple or other Phoenician practices, because Europe's "God," Jesus, was a JEW, NOT A PHOENCIAN. :-)
@@cedarcedaro5354 They are known (without dispute among professional anthropologists, and corroboration from Egyptian Pharaohs) to have sailed to what the Egyptians back then called Libia (today's Tunis), with help from Israelite astronomers who are also descendants of the Canaanites (Canaan fell in a civil war near 1,100 B.C.E.; Israel + Phoenicia being the 2 winners).
@Truth prevails Greek mythos was influenced by Egyptian and Phoenician mythos. Hermes being the Greek version of the Egyptian Thoth for example. Zeus, Hades and Poseidon are influenced by the Phoenician division of gods. The Greek language itself derived from the Phoenician script. And for good measure, Greeks suffered from a high rate of sickle cell thalssemia, you'll figure out the significance of that fact later. Just thought I'd include some historical facts to your rant. And please tell us during what Egyptian dynastic period did "Greeks reign in Egypt's forgotten past". Egyptian dynastic records are very clear. Anything pre dynastic would be Ethiopia Sudan region as the ancient Egyptians clearly claim as their origins.
@Patriotic Juhuri lol Phoenicians didn't speak Hebrew, they were descendants of Canaanites sure, but they didn't speak Hebrew. They spoke Phoenician, it literally says that in the video and on the wiki AND in history books. Doesnt hurt to learn a bit of history🙃
@@samray397 you reject us Arabs ? but we came from Phoenicia too , arabic and pheonicians are 70% parallel , we are literally the children of pheonicians, just because we chose the nomad life later doesn't mean we are not semitic
@@dagob5484 Bullshit. You (J1-M267 DNA) had no contact with Fertile Crescent (both archaeology & genetix prove) from about 35,000 BC till 852 BC's Battle Of Qarqar, and you spoke Southern Semitic (only contact with ETHIOPIANS for those TENS OF THOUSANDS of years...) until 100~300 AD Arabs BEGAN to get literate (LOL, most of the Mediterranean, Hindus/Chinese had more contact w/ Fertile Crescent, a google of "Neolithic Agricultural Rev" and "cup ring marks India Israel" both show -- and thus LITERACY was spread to nearly all of Eurasia before the SLOW Arabs/Ethiopi had ANY writing!!) and so Arabs realized 100~300 A.D. that SOUTHERN Semitic was TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE with alphabetic writing and CHANGED to what linguists now call "CENTRAL Semitic" because its hallmark feature was to ADOPT (quite THAT late in history!!) most features of the Hebrew (one of the last SURVIVING (as of 100~300 A.D.!!) Semitic ABJD's). You Culture Vultures (Arabs) are PROVEN OVER AND OVER by archaeologists to STEAL CREDIT for HUNDREDS of things from Persians/Hidus all the way to Israelites/BERBERS/Spaniards/Babylonians/the Kaffe tribe of Africa/Phoenicians (Druze)/Assyrians&Kurds/Egyptian Pharaohs/etc.
You’re not a phoenician descendant. Phoenicians origin is from the erythrean sea (modern day horn of africa and gulf of aden). Herodotus himself said this
Azibaal you know I’m actually surprised that there isn’t a lot of you in videos about phoenicians unlike assyrians who WE WUZ in every single video that mentions assyria ever
Thank you, i liked this a lot. It makes me crazy that there is almost no record of their spectacular contribution to the world mostly it seems because they used paper and left nothing in granite or other hard rock. They invented writing as we know it but didn't back- up their writing with a hard copy. I love those weird Pheenician figurines - i listened to the lecture by Dr. Scott - I have no doubt you know the work. It was great. would like to see more. Thank you for this. I have a Hamata and Squamata tote bag. i am a big fan.
Over the last few months you've gone to another level, probably the best history channel on YT at this point, please keep at it, always look forward to your videos.
Would be so cool if they uncover a Phoenician/Carthaginian library with intact records. I believe the Carthaginians/Phoenicians used paper to a high degree which makes for a far worse scenario than excavating clay tablets
@@mshaybra3187 I speak 4 languages fluently and always pick up new ones really easily growing up in boston ..maybe that has something to do with it . I know our ancestors were great merchants, traders ,and writers.
The patron of Tyros and other Phoenician places like the island of Tasos, was Melkart. The temple in his honour in Cádiz (Iberia) was associated to Hercules by the Greek.
They're both Eurasian and their languages are from the same language family (Afro-Asiatic). Also, Ancient Egyptians shared most of their genetics with the Bronze Age and Neolithic Period populations of the Levant.
ISAAC BAKAN...how could north Africa and Levant be similiar? There was NEVER any Lebanese language or culture in Africa. The original phoencians were black and brown prople of those regions as confirmed by Herodotus,GREEKS,the Bible and much more.
What little Punic I've seen is still mutually intelligible with Hebrew. Carthage in Punic is "Qart Hadasht," meaning "the new town." In Hebrew this is "Kiryat HaHadasha."
@MICHAEL GOLD I'm well-aware. But Hebrew had an advantage in that it was brought back by people who didn't already have a common language. Everyone in Lebanon already speaks Arabic. This is the problem Celtic languages are having as well.
إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace okay we get it your a Zionist and you hate all Arabs and your probably want to kill them because of Palestinian sympathy and greater Israel is underway...dude we don’t care you insane supremacist why you gotta ruin the comment section
I love these videos about all of these ancient civilizations, anything past Justinian bores me (except the mongols and the Byzantines) so the older the better!
Anything past Justinian bores you? Sounds like you don't appreciate South Asian and East Asian history very much, then, because medieval India and China had large prosperous empires, like the Chola dynasty of southern India that conquered much of Southeast Asia, or the Tang dynasty of China that invaded northern Korea, retained northern Vietnam, conquered much of southern Mongolia and eastern Central Asia, and fought the Tibetan Empire.
It's funny, their present day decendants, or should I say heirs to the region, the Lebanese are still traders and travelers. They are absolutely everywhere. Go to any big city in Africa for example, and there'll be a Lebanese merchant or restaurant
The pheonician language was a sister language to the one spoken in Israel! I am Israeli and can understand many of their names: Carthage- kart hadasht(new city) in Hebrew krach hadasha Hannibal(has the grace of the god baa'l) in Hebrew hen-baa'l Hispania- I shfanim(isle of conies) same in Hebrew
@@jonathanrotem251I also speak Hebrew and it sucks that there are no more languages like ours in the immediate vicinity. When I hear Arabic, I get similar and even identical words, but usually in a different context or there is a game with words.
The Phoenicians spoke the Canaanite language dialect which was very close to another Canaanite dialect - Hebrew. Both were mutually INTELLIGIBLE and the modern Israeli schoolchildren are able to understand the ancient Phoenician texts. Isn't it amazing?
Yes and no. I think an educated Hebrew speaker could understand 80%-90% of Phoenician but the traditions and deities are different. Schoolchildren often lack the linguistic ability to make connections.
But who is this Messiah? One man fulfills all that is required in this passage. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the Jewish world and proclaimed his messiahship 483 years after the decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem was issued. In the year 30 C. E., Jesus was executed by crucifixion. Daniel indicated that he would be cut off, not for himself, but rather for others. Isaiah 53 also prophesied the death of the Messiah, pointing out that he would die a substitutionary death on behalf of his people Israel. The teaching of the New Covenant is that Jesus died a penal death by taking upon himself the penalty of the Law as a substitute for his people. In keepinng with Daniel 9:24, he died for the purpose of making an atonement for sins. Three days after his death, he was resurrected. Finally, the New Covenant proclaims the fact that he will someday return to set up his kingdom and the age of righteousness. If Daniel was right, then Messiah came and died prior to the year 70 C.E. If Daniel was right, then there are no other options for who the Messiah is, but Jesus of Nazareth. If Daniel was right, this Jesus is destined to return and to set up the messianic kingdom.
The alpha-beta, navigational instruments, shipbuilding, currency, mining, philigram gold, textiles, dyes, ceramic, jewellery, papyrus, printing, construction, are but a few of our contributions to world civilzation. Thank you for your brief documentary, succinct & precise, focusing on the Alphabet.
Any studies proving that the origin of city names like Tyre (Sur), Sidon, Jubail and others being from the Arabian peninsula ? For example today the we fined Sur in Oman and Jubail in Saudi Arabia. Is it true ?
Their names would have similar roots because they come from the same semitic family. But they're not quite the same pronunciation as Arabic (closer to Hebrew). Jubail was pronounced and written as Gebel and Saida was Saidoon, Sur was not pronounced how it is now but likely more like the word (sure) in English or صر in Arabic
@@3aZM off the top of my head: "A punic-phoenician grammar" by Charles Krahmalkov does a good job at investigating Phoenician words, names and grammar and linking it to it's closest living relative: Hebrew. "In search of the Phoenicians" by Quinn also looks into many of the place inscriptions from Phoenicia. A great resource is Numismatic (ancient coins) textbooks as well: coins coming out of Jbeil have "X king of Gebel" minted quite clearly on them. Hope these help answer some of your questions.
Hannibal Ben Barca Yes the history of Phoenician are from from the Arab peninsula, they are Yemenis people the first people to to immigrate to the Levant ( fertile crescent ) they were big big groups of tribes. They are all Semite people, all Cannaanite is the is the mother tribe of Phoenician they went all the way to North Africa, Iberian peninsula, Southern Europe, the Cartridge and Berbers all from Yemen Himyarites sons of SABA son of Yashjub son of Yaarub son of JOKTAN son of Eber (HUD). The first messenger of God after NOAH is Eber is an Arab Yemen and the FATHER Joktan. And the first nation on earth after NOAH was the nation of A'ad (A'adite) and they were in Yemen, all this is long long before the birth of Abraham, thousands of years not 220 Bc or 320 Bc, in this time was the Arabs of Ismail and Israelites around, and Cannaanite were there long before Isaac was born . So is impossible to be 220 Bc, Moses was in exodus 1500 Bc, Pharoes were another tribe of Phoenician too they were from sub tribe of Bani Cannaanite and they were continued going and tribes split up Cartridge (KHATRASH) came out, and Berbers came out and Moorish came out and amazing came out, and they expanded to Iberia peninsula . They always saying no evidence from Arabia to support. After NOAH flood was no nation existed, started after the flood and started in the Yemen (Hadhramout). The western historians always they take a loop when it comes to Arabia, they can't say the truth very hard .
The recommendations in my sidebar are so awful. I think because you wrote the word "alphabet" in your video, it's recommending me all these "know your ABC's" children's videos. Amazing how bad that algorithm is. Great vid. Did you know the Phoenicians possibly had an outpost off the shores of Maine?
What I have heard or read before is that their boats were built like Ikea furniture, and the Romans figured it out and ended up copying it and making it better. I'm sure they live on in most of the people of the region as they were absorbed into the empires surrounding
Yes. Good question. Multiple languages were written in cuneiform script. Just how you can write multiple languages in ABCs. Akkadian was the most popular to use cuniform for in international communication until Aramean replaced it in the near east using an alphabetic script later on.
Hmmm. Cuneiform is the written script. Akkadian is a language that was written in cuneiform. Like how the Latin alphabet was created but now almost all of Europeans can write their languages in Latin script without knowing how to write in Latin.
They set up colonies in Spain but didn't come to conquer like the Romans. They hired Iberian and Celtiberian warriors as mercenaries and traded with them. Same as the Greeks.
@@edstar83 - They did conquer much like the Romans. Are you even vaguely familiar with the expansion of Carthage in Iberia under the Barcas. In few decades they subjugated half of the peninsula. Earlier Gadir had (per their own account) destroyed the famed city of Tartessos, too independent for their taste.
The Phoenician alphabet is the same alphabet of early Hebrew and Aramaic. It seems to me, that the Phoenicians were the ones who introduced the alphabet to the Greeks, and but they they did not necessarily invent it.
One correction I would submit is that while it is true that Phoenicians would have referred to themselves by their city, they did also recognize a collective cultural name: Canaanite. Carthaginian records for example refer to themselves as Kana’anim to distinguish themselves from native peoples.
@Moe Bazzi 7abibe ya khayye, ana asesan masi7e, w b7ebb ellak enno kellna fini2iyye add ba3ed, w hal chi asbato l dna testing (pierre zallou3a aust) w enno l ekhtilat wl zawej sar abel ma yejo l adyen w nesab l dna ktir aribe bi kell l tawayif, ya reyt ekhwenna l eslem kelloun bya3rfo enno aghlaboun aslon fini2e w kan3ane w se3eta ma ba2a netfarra2 abadan, Khayyak mn jezzin!
Moe Bazzi heyy guys bs ken badde oulo ma3kon haa 100% nhna kan3aniyyin bs lezem ns2al halna l kan3aniyyin mn wen ejo? L kan3aniyyin ejo mnl yaman 3a share2 l jazira l arabiyye w mn hounik aa lebanon(and parts of palestine and syria) it was long time ago so we are arabs even before arabs existed( before the language) so thats why fi ikhtilef bl shakel baynna w baynon so right we are kan3aniyyin but arabs and kan3aniyyin are siblings i would say. Thank you
Sammy Najem byblos is the oldest most continuously inhabitant city in the word but the oldest is ariha in palestine. 2 weeks ago we have found in baalback a child s body dating back for more than 9200 years so baalback now is even older than ariha. After all i m so proud to be Lebanese with baalback byblos beirut sidon and tyr being in the top 11 or 12 oldest cities in the world.
@@phoeniciangod3629 Allah ykhallikoun kelkoun wye7reskoun weyejma3koun jamy3an! Betse2al leysh ma men farre2 beyn ba3edna bel ghourbeh. Bass nerja3 3a Bledna mnesma7 la by2etna tefroud 3alayna tasarouffet gheyr ma2bouleh bi 3aserna! Sarli senteyn reje3 3a Lebnen w2erfen lbachar kella hown. Syesyine e3keryt eklyn lakhdar wel yebess. Wel cha3eb metl lghanam leh2yn ba3doun metl l7amyr. Badna sawra la nchyl kel lezbeleh bi bledna woun7et jyl jdyd bi kel lwazayef el7oukoumyeh! Ma fyah tballesh men jouwet Libnen. Lezem tballesh men barra, li2anna aktar bel 3adad wmenfet7yn aktar!
Thanks for this great information sir but I want to know do you really find the ancient nations of Israel or Judah in Egyptian phoenician Mithani sources I mean many historians have just nullified the idea of the Hebrews settling in Cannan before the conquest of Cyrus the Great or kurush e buzarg as he is known in farsi please make a video on this... Thank you
Good video. 2 problems. Regarding your comment, ugaritic is not a direct ancestor of the Canaanite alphabet, it used a cuneiform script. Second problem, there is no evidence of Hebrews invading the land of Canaan, they were probably a local group that united with others to create Israel, since their language is almost identical to Phoenician.
As usual, very well researched and overall great video. I hope you had happy holidays and a happy new year! One little nitpick however, you misspelled Israel :)
If you're considering the Phoenicians to be one specific subgroup of the Northwest Semitic peoples (which is the most common and probably most reasonable way to define things) then you can't consider the modern Arabic or Hebrew abjads to be derived from the Phoenician abjad. They're all closely related, and all derive from earlier Canaanite writing systems, but both modern Hebrew and Arabic scripts are from different forms of Aramaic writing, like the cursive Syriac abjad, in the case of Arabic.
مدن الساحل اللبناني و السوري ... أنظر الى الممثل السوري غسان مسعود فهو من مدينة ارواد الفينيقية .. و سكان قرطاج تونس .. و قرطاجنة في أسبانية و القليل جنوب ايطاليا@@glendacooper2100
Hey man great work about phonecians im already working on a thesis about them! Really like to see your sources as well in the description could come use of it.
The Phoenician alphabet were themselves derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphs, so didn't come from nowhere. But it'strue they are the first alphabet, or at least syllabary, in our western world - syllabary meaning they show the syllable but not every sound. They didn't show the vowels, except a few double as a vowel in some places: those letters for consonants y (7th letter), w (6th), and alaph/aleph (1st) - where the Greek got alpha, and Latin the 'a' letter. You see the aleph letter (on top left) looks like a badly written A fallen on its left side. So, in a way the Greek, who got their alphabets from these Phoenician ones, were the inventors of 1st actual alphabets. You can see how some of those letteres resemble Latin letetrs, but even more clearly the capital Greek letters, which were the original for Greek, likewise in Latin. Which is derived from the Greek alphabet, there's a video of that in TH-cam. Search 'Origin of Latin letters' or alike. Purple colour was made from that sea animals yes. The funny thing was, the colour needed urine in its manufacturing process, and it was a difficult colour to get - and thus expensive. So the aristocracy, the nobles who wore it as a sign of wealth, smelled of piss :) Israel split of Juda, not the other way around. It was the line of King David, of the House of Judah which continued on the throne of Judah, and the state of Israel chose another house. But their house soon collapsed and that Kingdom was riddled with inner power struggle until the Assyrians wiped it out and dispersed the population. Those people disappeared. So those Jewish genes were spread all over what's now Irak, Syria, Turkey, Jordania etc.
Google "Almendres oldest megaliths in Europe" then google "cup ring marks Israel India Canaan": Israel, their fellow Canaanites, were the astronomers (navigators) whereas Phoenicia specialty was building the boats, thus these 2 tribes (winners of Canaanite civil wars of ~1,200 BC, the Bronze Age Collapse) needed each other. Torah mentions Cadiz as a city called "Gadis" with a TIN MINE inland of there called TARSHISH (archaeologists identified a tin mine inland of Cadiz called TARTESSOS by the native Celts). Cadiz is confirmed to have CANAANITE (Bronze Age, when today's Lebanon+Israel were united) megaliths.
One of the most underrated peoples in history, considering how much they contributed. Most records of them come from their enemies, Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews.
I aree. I would not really called Hebrews their enemies. They had quite close ties and trade was a big factor between Israel and Phonecian cities. Also some information about for instance currency used in Kingdom of Israel comes from archeological sites in former Phonecia, so sometimes it is other way around.
@Truth prevails
Moon is greek too
Get the fuck out of here
@Truth prevails According to Greek Mythology, Phoenix came from Phoenicia, not Greece.
The Hebrews weren't their enemies. Where did you get that from? On the contrary - the bible says the Phoenician kings had good relations with the Israelite kings and helped to build their temples.
E B First time hearing this, what is the source and background of this info, i really do not think this is consensus amongs historians.
It's a damn shame the Phoenician records got burned, imagine all the knowledge lost..
Is so sad, hopefully, one day they find an intact library of theirs (I am sure will re-write history)
@@EpimetheusHistory
Hope so too
A comment like this always seems to appear immediately following a Roman conquest of an ancient contemporary.
After the agricultural, industrial and scientific revolutions, it won't impact anyone's life. The British were far more influential as innovators, traders and empire builders. (We're even using their language to communicate.)
How sad alexa play hymn to nikkal
I've recently been reading about how they may have circumnavigated africa. Interesting people, great stuff!
I believe they probably did, and probably made it to Scandinavia too, seeing as it is not that far from Britain who they bought tin from.
They did for sure, this is attested by Egyptian records (the Egyptians paid for the trip) and the most notorious evidence of its truthfulness is something that raised many eyebrows back in the day: they claimed to have seen the Sun to the North at noon. Another great Phoenician (Carthaginian) sailor was Hanno the navigator, who traveled all the way to Cameroon (documenting an eruption of the volcano of the same name) and further south maybe to Congo but didn't find anywhere interesting to trade with so they came back empty-handed.
More difficult to believe is their alleged arrival to America based on some stuff found in Brazil (unsure of the details right now) but in any case it's clear to me that if Carthage would have won the Punic wars, America would have been "discovered" by Westerners a thousand years earlier than it was. Those people were real sailors, not like landlubber Romans.
As for Scandinavia, it's now clear that Greeks went all the way to that area, so why not Phoenicians whom we know were trading at Cornwall for tin?
@@EpimetheusHistory they were i belive the first outsiders to reach the coast of west africa which is actually pretty impressive considering it was easier to cross the sahara desert that particular tropical region is difficult for sailing apparently greek accounts say that hano the navigator was trading with mysterious men past the pillars of Hercules historians believing those mysterious men to be the sonnike peoples and other carthage accounts of encountering tiny men near what some believe is Cameroon possibly mubuti pygmies
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soninke_Wangara
Necho II of Egypt is the one who financed and sent the voyage
@@LuisAldamiz "they claimed to have seen the Sun to the North at noon". This is probably the most amazing statement I've ever heard about an ancient civilization. How could they have known that unless they had actually crossed the Equator? And how far South did they go? Did they reach the Sinai peninsula from the south? How did they equip their ships? How many people did they contact? So many questions
Fun fact: Many uncovered grave stones of Carthaginians read "sons of Tyre". Carthage made annual voyages to their smaller sister city to give trbute in heaps of gold and resources. Carthaginians never seemed to have lost the connection to the motherland.
Manaqa...The motherland of Carthagenians were native black and brown Africans.The Phoenicians were Egyptians.The obvious truths of this history are coming to fuision.In addition native Africans inhabited Carthage long before the Egyptians settled there.
@@matiusbond6052 Native Africans were being hunted by lions, crocs, and hyenas and trampled by elephants lol. Even the people of the land of Kush, the region south of Egypt, were actually just ancient Arabs.
Both of the two earlier comments are wrong. Carthage was not black, and the kushites were Africans not arabs. That's like calling the ancient Egyptians, Arabs
Arabs weren't even in Africa enmass at that point
@@muhammadedwards8425 10% of comments on any video on ancient history will be people asserting that their own nation or ethnicity are in fact the centre of the universe
@@matiusbond6052 what fucking egyptians settled in carthage
I'm Portuguese and we learn in school about how the Phoenicians and Carthaginians influenced the Iberia language and culture but we aren't even taught from where those 2 nations came from ! Ty for this video.
Also, dude from the thumbnail looks badass
I don't see that much of influence because the Iberian Peninsula was romanized to a great degree later (two emperor were patricians born there) and while the Lusitanians kept fighting Romans for some time, the majority of local inhabitants of what would be labelled later as Hispania, were likely to be ethnically Celts. Even after Roman collapse it was the Visigoths who took over, and in general they assimilated more of the local culture, than imposed theirs (for example, they eventually converted from Arianism to Trinitarianism) only with the Muslim invasion, there was a big shift in local culture and language, that not only evolved naturally as Latin did everywhere, but also assimilated Arabic words.
@@Neomalthusiano It wasn't just the Lusitanians who kept fighting the Romans. It took the Romans just over 2 centuries even after the fall of Carthage and Hannibal to subdue and Romanize most of the Celtic and Iberian tribes in Hispania. They lost a few legions in the process. I read somewhere that even the women from some of the tribes in the north charged the Romans never showing their backs to them, preferring to die in battle or even choosing to kill themselves and their children rather than be taken as slaves by the Romans.
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edstar83 The Celtiberian groups to hold out longest against Romanization were the Astures and the Cantabri of the North. Caesar Augustus himself had to personally lead his legions deep into the Cantabrian highlands and have his generals bribe the most corruptible elements of the neighboring lowland clans in order to finally put an end to the protracted Cantabrian Wars. (Some of the surviving Cantabri would go on to accompany the Romans later in various campaigns in Britannia.)
Interestingly, the Cantabri [still strongly Celtic in orientation and among the least Romanized groups inhabiting the peninsula] were the first Iberian group to be formally integrated into the nobility of the Visigothic court - in recognition of the critical role they played in aiding Don Pelagius’ forces in the destruction of the Muslim horde during the battle of Covadonga. This Celtibero-Gothic union was formalized via the marriage of Pelagius’ daughter to the son of Peter of Cantabria.
the union of Don Pelagius’ daughter and the son of Duke Fruela of Cantabria. (They would go on to have an heir who would be formally recognized as the first of king of Hispania, Alfonso I of Asturies.)
This Badass is Hamicar Barka, the Phoenician warrior from Carthage! (Just joking!) But my young compatriots look just as handsome or even better! Haha...
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The earliest rendition of a useable Alphabetic script was from the Canaanite city of Ugarit (just north of Arvad of the coast of the Levant in modern day Syria), just before the bronze age collapse 1300-1190 BC. The Ugaritic alphabet is the direct ancestor of the later Phoenician alphabet which they exposed the entire Mediterranean world which other Alphabetic scripts evolved from -One of which I am using now to write this comment
Great job and keep up the good work
Thanks! Ghostface Warrior
sir please please please reply that you will make a video on Rajput of India
I remember watching a video that Phoenician was influenced from the ancient Egyptian language. Not sure if thats correct though.
Indeed! The Ugaritic alphabet comes from proto-sinatic script, which is a simplification of Egyptian hieratic, which is in turn a quick way to write the hieroglyphs.
This means that the Phoenician alphabet, and by extension the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic scripts are all descendants of the hieroglyphs!
I doesn't really get better than this. What I love about Epimetheus' videos is that they are extremely concise, but filled with enough detail to pique one's interest and point us in the right direction for further research.
Also RIP to ancient middle-eastern civilizations...
Greeks, Egyptians (Copts), Israelis and Assyrians are still existing, I do not now about any others or if they have changed their name or language.
@@Armorius2199
Greece is a Mediterranean civilization, not a near east one.
Arameans still survive, we speak neo-aramaic
@@sfccapello
You are assyrians aren't you?
@@eliran9231 aramean brother, our ancestors come from Antioch, Aleppo, damaskus, Nisibis, Harran.
I feel somewhat sorry for the Phoenicians, just because they settled in North Africa, now we have Hoteps and other crazies trying to claim that Carthaginians were Sub Saharan Africans and that Hannibal was as dark as a ninja
You guys are fucking idiots.
@@MrPanos2000 Oh Tariq Nasheed does that to Asians too, he painted blackface over Kublai Khan's retainers and said Ninjas were black
You guys are talking about the African-American Bantus from west Africa who claim everything
, The Phoenicians are Afroasiatic people from the semitic branch, They're related to Ethiopians who are also Semitic and Somalis who are Cushitic, Africa is a continent and sub-saharan Africa is just a geographic location not a race or ethnicity
Turkic nationalists do this as well and so did the Nazis to an extent with the whole Aryan thing. It’s not just unique to Afrocentrist circles. Typically nationalists try to claim credit for events they personally had nothing to do with of people they never met to try to make up for their own personal lack of accomplishments in life. It’s quite pitiful really.
@@zyzmys That's wrong the Phoenicians were Canaanites (the Canaanites where descendants of Kham: the son of No'akh) The Ethiopians ain't Shemetic! The Ethiopians are Khamitic! As is also the Somalis. And these "Bantus" that you had mentioned either came from Kham or they came from Shem.... they didn't come from nobody!
Thanks for linking the Canaanites and Phoenicians plus Carthage for me. Very helpful!
So does this mean that Canaan became Phoenicia? I'm kind of confused about this.
@@gringo3002 The Phoenicians are Canaanites, they are their descendants
@@gringo3002canaan = Phoenician . Geek call him Phoenician...
Phoenicians inhabited Levant
Especially Palestine they were cannantes
There are some Spanish cites that funded by Phoenicians referring to Palestinian cities like cadiz
PROUD TO BE PHOENICIAN 🇱🇧
Love to Lebanon form Tunisia 🇹🇳🌹🇱🇧
Phoenician from tunisia Carthage 🇹🇳⚔️
Yeah but Lebanese have been mixed with Arabs, Greeks, French , Armenians and Turks. Saying your just one thing is king of contradicting and certainly deceiving.
@@lb3843 wrong we have little to no Greek, Armenian and French in our dna. 93% of our genetic ancestry is Phoenician
Sorry to break the news but most Lebanese people have arab blood and those who do have Phoenician blood aren’t pure they’re mixed with other ethnicities like Turks and Arabs
I requested this the last time, thank you so much Epimetheus 💪 I'm feeling whole now
Glad you liked it :D
@@EpimetheusHistory
Thank you
@@EpimetheusHistory this Phoenician is at your service now ; ) 💪
@إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace None of you are Phoenicians so shut up.
@@GODOBER Yes they well are. The people today inhabiting the Levant, North-Africa and East-Africa who call themselves 'Arab' do not descend from the true Gulf Arabs from the south. There are significant differences between the Gulf Arabs and non Gulf Arabs, Gulf Arabs tend to show very high to tremendous frequencies of haplogroup J1, whilst Levantines show significant frequencies of J1, J2, E, R1b and T.
Great video, it is tragic that the history of such great explores who could rival the Greeks has been lost, and that they have disapeared unlike others like the Persians, Greeks and Assyrians.
thanks to the romans who destroyed such knowledge and thanks to the mongols that destroyed the house of wisdom
imagine if none of them destroyed a thing and yet they take it and study it !
we could be now at this moment a tYPE 1 civilization
we have not disappeared the people remain the same, its our land that has been burnt.
@@mrenigma1564Maybe they did not distroy and took it and it got distroyed when rome was falling apart, archeology could still uncover this knowledge in italy
wow as well inventing the alphabet they seem to also be the reason why purple is associated with royalty
I'm a phoenician long live Lebanon
All the cities sidon tyre and byblos are Lebanese
@@muhammedhoteit4261 انتم لستم كنعانين فهم عرب
Nope, the Israelites (who descend from the same people -- the Canaanites -- and EVEN TODAY share J2-M172 DNA with Druze/other Phoenicians) also used deep purple frome a particular anthropod species for THEIR royalty, and EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL KINGS then spread/emulated that, and everything else they learned in the Torah about Davidic Kingdom, but Euro Kings knew next-to-nothing about Phoenicia using purple or other Phoenician practices, because Europe's "God," Jesus, was a JEW, NOT A PHOENCIAN. :-)
@@ahmadamin8348 rouh entek
@@ahmadamin8348 it's literally called Tyrian purple and comes from murex shells, learn your shit.
In Libya the foundation of the western coast cities have been established by Phoenicians
Mountain Leader Lebanon not lybia
@@cedarcedaro5354 They are known (without dispute among professional anthropologists, and corroboration from Egyptian Pharaohs) to have sailed to what the Egyptians back then called Libia (today's Tunis), with help from Israelite astronomers who are also descendants of the Canaanites (Canaan fell in a civil war near 1,100 B.C.E.; Israel + Phoenicia being the 2 winners).
So true Phoenician were the ancient ancestors of Hanibal the great
@@ghanvedsingh8946 Sure. In Spain we know, since they were both here, Phoenicians and Carthaginians.
@@cedarcedaro5354
Pffff are u ignorant
"Europe" comes from "Europa"= a Phoenician princess.
@Truth prevails Greek mythos was influenced by Egyptian and Phoenician mythos. Hermes being the Greek version of the Egyptian Thoth for example. Zeus, Hades and Poseidon are influenced by the Phoenician division of gods. The Greek language itself derived from the Phoenician script. And for good measure, Greeks suffered from a high rate of sickle cell thalssemia, you'll figure out the significance of that fact later. Just thought I'd include some historical facts to your rant. And please tell us during what Egyptian dynastic period did "Greeks reign in Egypt's forgotten past". Egyptian dynastic records are very clear. Anything pre dynastic would be Ethiopia Sudan region as the ancient Egyptians clearly claim as their origins.
@Truth prevails "Are Egyptian and Phoenician older nations than Greeks"? If you have to ask that you shouldn't be telling anyone anything
@Truth prevails they influence eachother its not that hard to grasp
@Truth prevails not everything is invented by the Greeks.
Europa - Trachia .Dacia - Pelasgea- Getia.LATIN
Great material as always. I'm proud to see my name at the end of the videos.
Dang it Romans, you got to stop destroying our sources!
They are glory-hoarders.
And then they decided to burn the library of Alexandria down too
But hey at least they weren’t as bad as the mongols with the Baghdad house of wisdom
So sad ;(
Evil cunts that say they burn it or destroy it but secretly it's under the Vatican
F to Carthage
F...S
F or P, depending on the era. The Punic language underwent spirantization whereby the phoneme p > f.
My students enjoyed this video fr. Keep up the good work.
Lebanon 🇱🇧❤️
*cries in coastal Syrian*
Srsly y'all all does comments AND Y'ALL FORGETTING ABT PALESTINE. sheesh
mira sandouka I’m mixed of both ;£
All the love for Syria and Palestine ♥️♥️ we should all be one country actually!
@@mirasandouka5910 Israel***
I was reviewing and clicked on this randomly and actually improved my life
tHAT'S MA COUNTRY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!?!?!
Edit ma country is lebanon
Who speak Hebrew...
i love lebanon habib
@@kennyhuynh248 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
اي شي بيضرط 😱
@Patriotic Juhuri lol Phoenicians didn't speak Hebrew, they were descendants of Canaanites sure, but they didn't speak Hebrew. They spoke Phoenician, it literally says that in the video and on the wiki AND in history books.
Doesnt hurt to learn a bit of history🙃
Top Quality as always! :)
Thank you!
My city of safi in the atlantic coast of morocco is said to have been built by the phoenicians who were coming here to trade with the local berbers
a fen w weld lklba hhh
achtadir hna
It is a fact. Bless you. No wonder we love our North African Cousins & reject the Arabs around us. Welcome to Lebanon!
@@samray397 you reject us Arabs ? but we came from Phoenicia too , arabic and pheonicians are 70% parallel , we are literally the children of pheonicians, just because we chose the nomad life later doesn't mean we are not semitic
Even the alphabet the Berbers use to write on, looks identical to the Phoenician alphabet.
@@dagob5484 Bullshit. You (J1-M267 DNA) had no contact with Fertile Crescent (both archaeology & genetix prove) from about 35,000 BC till 852 BC's Battle Of Qarqar, and you spoke Southern Semitic (only contact with ETHIOPIANS for those TENS OF THOUSANDS of years...) until 100~300 AD Arabs BEGAN to get literate (LOL, most of the Mediterranean, Hindus/Chinese had more contact w/ Fertile Crescent, a google of "Neolithic Agricultural Rev" and "cup ring marks India Israel" both show -- and thus LITERACY was spread to nearly all of Eurasia before the SLOW Arabs/Ethiopi had ANY writing!!) and so Arabs realized 100~300 A.D. that SOUTHERN Semitic was TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE with alphabetic writing and CHANGED to what linguists now call "CENTRAL Semitic" because its hallmark feature was to ADOPT (quite THAT late in history!!) most features of the Hebrew (one of the last SURVIVING (as of 100~300 A.D.!!) Semitic ABJD's).
You Culture Vultures (Arabs) are PROVEN OVER AND OVER by archaeologists to STEAL CREDIT for HUNDREDS of things from Persians/Hidus all the way to Israelites/BERBERS/Spaniards/Babylonians/the Kaffe tribe of Africa/Phoenicians (Druze)/Assyrians&Kurds/Egyptian Pharaohs/etc.
A superb journey in time and knowledge ...Happy to see everything did not go up in smoke, well done!👌
Great video, fantastic channel
Glad 'The Big G' recommended you! Thanks!
Thanks for you from a phoenician descendant who lives in sidon 🇱🇧
You’re not a phoenician descendant. Phoenicians origin is from the erythrean sea (modern day horn of africa and gulf of aden). Herodotus himself said this
@@Andu_musicso I'm a phoenician then? Since I'm from the horn
Lebanon 🖤🇱🇧
Azibaal you know I’m actually surprised that there isn’t a lot of you in videos about phoenicians unlike assyrians who WE WUZ in every single video that mentions assyria ever
Son of Mountain wait you like lebanon?
Son of Mountain I thought you hate shiites
Son of Mountain
Lebanon is Christian 40% and Muslim 60%
Son of Mountain
so it's neither Christian or Muslim its both
The canaanites weren’t eradicated, they were invaded and forced into assimilation.
J Lupus yea, Lebanese are descendants of the canaanites.
@Darkseid El Qbayl Libyan-Punic what about modern Samaritans? Aren’t they canaanites too?
Very interesting and informative video. Thank you Subscribed
Master negotiators, freedom lovers, good traders...
You are describing the lebanese my friend, long live lebanon!🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
Thank you, i liked this a lot. It makes me crazy that there is almost no record of their spectacular contribution to the world mostly it seems because they used paper and left nothing in granite or other hard rock. They invented writing as we know it but didn't back- up their writing with a hard copy. I love those weird Pheenician figurines - i listened to the lecture by Dr. Scott - I have no doubt you know the work. It was great. would like to see more. Thank you for this. I have a Hamata and Squamata tote bag. i am a big fan.
Over the last few months you've gone to another level, probably the best history channel on YT at this point, please keep at it, always look forward to your videos.
Another great video thanks for uploading.
Wait... the Phoenecians ended up in Senegal? That's highly intriguing... too bad their records are destroyed - I'd love to know what they found there.
Would be so cool if they uncover a Phoenician/Carthaginian library with intact records.
I believe the Carthaginians/Phoenicians used paper to a high degree which makes for a far worse scenario than excavating clay tablets
@@EpimetheusHistory the historical destruction of knowledge never ceases to irritate me. Who knows how much we've lost?
@al-Haifawi Yes. Not modern paper... unfortunately burnt just as quick :(
they found people covered with furs who they called Gorillai (in the Greek text Γόριλλαι).
Not just Senegal, they went all the way south to beyond Cameroon. Look up Hanno the Navigator for details.
More like big thanks to you for making awesome videos!
Im Rwandan and Lebanese :) i'm told Lebanese are descendants of Phoenicians..
yup we are they did a test on some Lebanese people and estimated that almost 95% of us are descendants of them
@@mshaybra3187 I speak 4 languages fluently and always pick up new ones really easily growing up in boston ..maybe that has something to do with it . I know our ancestors were great merchants, traders ,and writers.
@matius bond yes they are
phoencians are Canaannies , Arabs grandfathers
And phonecians and cannanites were descended from arabs
The patron of Tyros and other Phoenician places like the island of Tasos, was Melkart. The temple in his honour in Cádiz (Iberia) was associated to Hercules by the Greek.
I always did think North Africa and the Levant are oddly simular.
Before levant was the extension of egypt
they look very semilar, probably clustered a thousand times
They're both Eurasian and their languages are from the same language family (Afro-Asiatic).
Also, Ancient Egyptians shared most of their genetics with the Bronze Age and Neolithic Period populations of the Levant.
ISAAC BAKAN...how could north Africa and Levant be similiar? There was NEVER any Lebanese language or culture in Africa. The original phoencians were black and brown prople of those regions as confirmed by Herodotus,GREEKS,the Bible and much more.
From what I can tell, most of North Africa has Berbers indigenous to it. The Arabs there may have come from the Levant.
Thank you so much for your videos! :) Merry Christmas!
What little Punic I've seen is still mutually intelligible with Hebrew. Carthage in Punic is "Qart Hadasht," meaning "the new town." In Hebrew this is "Kiryat HaHadasha."
in Arabic it's "Qarya hadetha قرية حديثة"
You are pushing me into learning hebrew or arabic 🧐
Lux Vult You could try to bring back Punic. I’m told Lebanon is going through a whole “rediscovering our Phoenician roots” thing lately.
The Saracen Arabic is a much later language.
@MICHAEL GOLD I'm well-aware. But Hebrew had an advantage in that it was brought back by people who didn't already have a common language. Everyone in Lebanon already speaks Arabic. This is the problem Celtic languages are having as well.
They were dancing dabka every time they made a successful transaction.
😂😂😂
إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace The dance is derived from ancient Canaanite dances, only the name is Arabic
إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace okay we get it your a Zionist and you hate all Arabs and your probably want to kill them because of Palestinian sympathy and greater Israel is underway...dude we don’t care you insane supremacist why you gotta ruin the comment section
@@qayn7617 Are you Assyrian? (Looking at your name)
@@arza7985 You are right, funnily enough it's the Phoenicians who started it all :D
I love these videos about all of these ancient civilizations, anything past Justinian bores me (except the mongols and the Byzantines) so the older the better!
Da funk you said about Justinian?
@@Arkhamist1 That anything AFTER him is boring.
I disagree, Basil II is bae.
There some good stuff past Justin...chck Rosalia for exmple, she's the new hot thing.
Anything past Justinian bores you? Sounds like you don't appreciate South Asian and East Asian history very much, then, because medieval India and China had large prosperous empires, like the Chola dynasty of southern India that conquered much of Southeast Asia, or the Tang dynasty of China that invaded northern Korea, retained northern Vietnam, conquered much of southern Mongolia and eastern Central Asia, and fought the Tibetan Empire.
Eric Connor I’ve tried to get into eastern history and mythology but once you past Mesopotamia I just lose interest.
Oh, look, they've got a a ton of records about their history? What should we do?
*instantly burn*
I imagine archaeologists really hate the ancient romans and Spanish
Just layed down in bed and TH-cam notifies me that a new map porn video is out...
Tf I just read
Very nice channel. Cheers 😬
It's funny, their present day decendants, or should I say heirs to the region, the Lebanese are still traders and travelers. They are absolutely everywhere. Go to any big city in Africa for example, and there'll be a Lebanese merchant or restaurant
Some of the Arab tribes from Arabia were also traders.
Shakira is part Lebanese
Took me till now to understand how great the name Epimetheus is for a history channel.
The pheonician language was a sister language to the one spoken in Israel! I am Israeli and can understand many of their names: Carthage- kart hadasht(new city) in Hebrew krach hadasha
Hannibal(has the grace of the god baa'l) in Hebrew hen-baa'l
Hispania- I shfanim(isle of conies) same in Hebrew
Cool.
You are basicly saying that if a person know pheonician language he culd understand hebrew and arabic on basic level?
rasengan Hebrew and aramean languages
@@rasengan4597 no, I'm not saying that. But if you know one semitic language it will help you to learn others. Like Spanish, italian and French.
@@jonathanrotem251I also speak Hebrew and it sucks that there are no more languages like ours in the immediate vicinity. When I hear Arabic, I get similar and even identical words, but usually in a different context or there is a game with words.
great as always, thank you
Really enjoying these ancient history videos
You have made a Great Channel! Keep up your best efforts :) 👍
The Phoenicians spoke the Canaanite language dialect which was very close to another Canaanite dialect - Hebrew. Both were mutually INTELLIGIBLE and the modern Israeli schoolchildren are able to understand the ancient Phoenician texts. Isn't it amazing?
yes indeed
Yes and no. I think an educated Hebrew speaker could understand 80%-90% of Phoenician but the traditions and deities are different.
Schoolchildren often lack the linguistic ability to make connections.
@@tantebaguette
A modern Hebrew speaker would mainly understand written Phoenician, but would struggle with the ancient accent in a spoken language.
Do you the history of modern day Hebrew language...?
Go read about it, interesting to say the least
@@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273
Yes, I do. Way more than you will ever know. Especially about the racist lies you believe in.
Thanks for the video. Books and references would aid learning.
I would really love if you could do a video abut the Arameans
Well made video, cheers!
My dad is from Byblos/jbel lebanon
سلم عليه
atleast lebanon is mentioned in the Bible, no mention of the word Kurdistan tho.
But who is this Messiah? One man fulfills all that is required in this passage. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the Jewish world and proclaimed his messiahship 483 years after the decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem was issued. In the year 30 C. E., Jesus was executed by crucifixion. Daniel indicated that he would be cut off, not for himself, but rather for others. Isaiah 53 also prophesied the death of the Messiah, pointing out that he would die a substitutionary death on behalf of his people Israel. The teaching of the New Covenant is that Jesus died a penal death by taking upon himself the penalty of the Law as a substitute for his people. In keepinng with Daniel 9:24, he died for the purpose of making an atonement for sins. Three days after his death, he was resurrected. Finally, the New Covenant proclaims the fact that he will someday return to set up his kingdom and the age of righteousness.
If Daniel was right, then Messiah came and died prior to the year 70 C.E. If Daniel was right, then there are no other options for who the Messiah is, but Jesus of Nazareth. If Daniel was right, this Jesus is destined to return and to set up the messianic kingdom.
@إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace lolz
@Son of Mountain loooolz
The alpha-beta, navigational instruments, shipbuilding, currency, mining, philigram gold, textiles, dyes, ceramic, jewellery, papyrus, printing, construction, are but a few of our contributions to world civilzation. Thank you for your brief documentary, succinct & precise, focusing on the Alphabet.
Lebanese Phoenician & Proud💜🇱🇧
First YEET! On another note, thanks for uploading this. I've wanted this topic for a while.
A lot of people water this topic...
@@omegaink5635
You win TH-cam.
@@SomeGuy1117 darn typo...
@@omegaink5635
I thought it was a pun. Because the Pheonecians were great sailors.
@@SomeGuy1117 I'm such an idiot...
*SIGH* thanx for the compliment anyways, for my unintentional comedy 👍
Great video
Any studies proving that the origin of city names like Tyre (Sur), Sidon, Jubail and others being from the Arabian peninsula ?
For example today the we fined Sur in Oman and Jubail in Saudi Arabia.
Is it true ?
Their names would have similar roots because they come from the same semitic family. But they're not quite the same pronunciation as Arabic (closer to Hebrew). Jubail was pronounced and written as Gebel and Saida was Saidoon, Sur was not pronounced how it is now but likely more like the word (sure) in English or صر in Arabic
Need academic sources plz.
@@3aZM off the top of my head: "A punic-phoenician grammar" by Charles Krahmalkov does a good job at investigating Phoenician words, names and grammar and linking it to it's closest living relative: Hebrew. "In search of the Phoenicians" by Quinn also looks into many of the place inscriptions from Phoenicia. A great resource is Numismatic (ancient coins) textbooks as well: coins coming out of Jbeil have "X king of Gebel" minted quite clearly on them. Hope these help answer some of your questions.
Hannibal Ben Barca Yes the history of Phoenician are from from the Arab peninsula, they are Yemenis people the first people to to immigrate to the Levant ( fertile crescent ) they were big big groups of tribes. They are all Semite people, all Cannaanite is the is the mother tribe of Phoenician they went all the way to North Africa, Iberian peninsula, Southern Europe, the Cartridge and Berbers all from Yemen Himyarites sons of SABA son of Yashjub son of Yaarub son of JOKTAN son of Eber (HUD). The first messenger of God after NOAH is Eber is an Arab Yemen and the FATHER Joktan. And the first nation on earth after NOAH was the nation of A'ad (A'adite) and they were in Yemen, all this is long long before the birth of Abraham, thousands of years not 220 Bc or 320 Bc, in this time was the Arabs of Ismail and Israelites around, and Cannaanite were there long before Isaac was born . So is impossible to be 220 Bc, Moses was in exodus 1500 Bc, Pharoes were another tribe of Phoenician too they were from sub tribe of Bani Cannaanite and they were continued going and tribes split up Cartridge (KHATRASH) came out, and Berbers came out and Moorish came out and amazing came out, and they expanded to Iberia peninsula . They always saying no evidence from Arabia to support. After NOAH flood was no nation existed, started after the flood and started in the Yemen (Hadhramout). The western historians always they take a loop when it comes to Arabia, they can't say the truth very hard .
stop talking nonsense, no Noah and kahtan and Adnan fictional characters head to think
Your videos save me for exams, thank you!!!!
Can'aan not Phoenicia. They never called themselves phoenicians
True
True. Phoenicians is what the Greeks used to call them.
Same in modern names u cant say masr in english u should say egypt
Lobnan =lebanon so its greek or roman names because the different of languages
They called themselves Kena'ani .
In this video whos talking is not one of them 🤔
The recommendations in my sidebar are so awful. I think because you wrote the word "alphabet" in your video, it's recommending me all these "know your ABC's" children's videos. Amazing how bad that algorithm is. Great vid. Did you know the Phoenicians possibly had an outpost off the shores of Maine?
I can’t believe u explained all this under 5minutes!!! 😳
What I have heard or read before is that their boats were built like Ikea furniture, and the Romans figured it out and ended up copying it and making it better. I'm sure they live on in most of the people of the region as they were absorbed into the empires surrounding
Apparently they (carthage) were the first to sail along the west african coast trading Things for gold of the coast of west africa
fire🔥 through my friend. well done
Can you do a video about the philistines?
YES
Moderen day Palestine
Great Short video, i hope you can make a video on the Qin dystasty and the Irokese.
Is there a difference between cuneiform and Akkadian?
Yes. Good question. Multiple languages were written in cuneiform script. Just how you can write multiple languages in ABCs. Akkadian was the most popular to use cuniform for in international communication until Aramean replaced it in the near east using an alphabetic script later on.
Epimetheus nice thanks brother
Hmmm. Cuneiform is the written script. Akkadian is a language that was written in cuneiform. Like how the Latin alphabet was created but now almost all of Europeans can write their languages in Latin script without knowing how to write in Latin.
This was amazing !
The recommendation tab next to my screen is full of the alphabet song, oh well
Hey everyone, what's the name of the music in the background? It's really ambient and lovely!
(William Rosati- Parzival)
I talked about their colonies in Spain, they probably founded Cádiz!
They certainly founded Cádiz, there's no doubt about it. Same for Málaga, Almería, Cartagena, etc.
@إسرائيلي ساحق الجراثي العربوية israeli masterrace - I'm not replying to anyone with that Zionazi nickname.
They set up colonies in Spain but didn't come to conquer like the Romans. They hired Iberian and Celtiberian warriors as mercenaries and traded with them. Same as the Greeks.
Then came the Romans... th-cam.com/video/itlWI8Y9-kg/w-d-xo.html
@@edstar83 - They did conquer much like the Romans. Are you even vaguely familiar with the expansion of Carthage in Iberia under the Barcas. In few decades they subjugated half of the peninsula. Earlier Gadir had (per their own account) destroyed the famed city of Tartessos, too independent for their taste.
Great job 🙂☺🙂
Are modern day Lebanese people descendants of Phoenicians?
Yes. A study revealed that Lebanese are 93% related to ancient canaanites.
Instructive video as always. You need to put the name of the music. I've been searching it for so long😀
Could you do videos on the ancient Jews and these neo hittites?
He has done on Israel look it up.
Modern Israelis are ashkenazi from eastern Europe they have nothing to do with old Jewish semite people !
So go fuck yourself ash Nazi
@zzKaboomz z Those who say they are jews but are not.
Ashkenazi Jews are middle eastern jews mixed with europeans
Amazing content.
This video really locates me in the Phoenician history compared to other Mesopotamic states, was confused. Still waiting for Elamites video :)
Hi can you do a vid about the Scythians?
Originally, Phoenicians!
Remi Serpent Yes!!
The Phoenician alphabet is the same alphabet of early Hebrew and Aramaic. It seems to me, that the Phoenicians were the ones who introduced the alphabet to the Greeks, and but they they did not necessarily invent it.
One correction I would submit is that while it is true that Phoenicians would have referred to themselves by their city, they did also recognize a collective cultural name: Canaanite. Carthaginian records for example refer to themselves as Kana’anim to distinguish themselves from native peoples.
Chances are they spoke a closely related or maybe same lamguage than the proto hebrees too
All of Byblos Sidon and Tyre are found in Lebanon, my country.
@Moe Bazzi 7abibe ya khayye, ana asesan masi7e, w b7ebb ellak enno kellna fini2iyye add ba3ed, w hal chi asbato l dna testing (pierre zallou3a aust) w enno l ekhtilat wl zawej sar abel ma yejo l adyen w nesab l dna ktir aribe bi kell l tawayif, ya reyt ekhwenna l eslem kelloun bya3rfo enno aghlaboun aslon fini2e w kan3ane w se3eta ma ba2a netfarra2 abadan,
Khayyak mn jezzin!
Moe Bazzi heyy guys bs ken badde oulo ma3kon haa 100% nhna kan3aniyyin bs lezem ns2al halna l kan3aniyyin mn wen ejo? L kan3aniyyin ejo mnl yaman 3a share2 l jazira l arabiyye w mn hounik aa lebanon(and parts of palestine and syria) it was long time ago so we are arabs even before arabs existed( before the language) so thats why fi ikhtilef bl shakel baynna w baynon so right we are kan3aniyyin but arabs and kan3aniyyin are siblings i would say. Thank you
Yes! Byblos is the oldest structured city state in history!
Sammy Najem byblos is the oldest most continuously inhabitant city in the word but the oldest is ariha in palestine. 2 weeks ago we have found in baalback a child s body dating back for more than 9200 years so baalback now is even older than ariha. After all i m so proud to be Lebanese with baalback byblos beirut sidon and tyr being in the top 11 or 12 oldest cities in the world.
@@phoeniciangod3629 Allah ykhallikoun kelkoun wye7reskoun weyejma3koun jamy3an! Betse2al leysh ma men farre2 beyn ba3edna bel ghourbeh. Bass nerja3 3a Bledna mnesma7 la by2etna tefroud 3alayna tasarouffet gheyr ma2bouleh bi 3aserna! Sarli senteyn reje3 3a Lebnen w2erfen lbachar kella hown. Syesyine e3keryt eklyn lakhdar wel yebess. Wel cha3eb metl lghanam leh2yn ba3doun metl l7amyr. Badna sawra la nchyl kel lezbeleh bi bledna woun7et jyl jdyd bi kel lwazayef el7oukoumyeh! Ma fyah tballesh men jouwet Libnen. Lezem tballesh men barra, li2anna aktar bel 3adad wmenfet7yn aktar!
Thanks for this great information sir but I want to know do you really find the ancient nations of Israel or Judah in Egyptian phoenician Mithani sources I mean many historians have just nullified the idea of the Hebrews settling in Cannan before the conquest of Cyrus the Great or kurush e buzarg as he is known in farsi please make a video on this... Thank you
I know about assyrian source fron 700 bc where the assyrian king write about his conquest of the middle east and Judah kingdom revolts
I am Phoenician
From Byblos
Good video. 2 problems. Regarding your comment, ugaritic is not a direct ancestor of the Canaanite alphabet, it used a cuneiform script. Second problem, there is no evidence of Hebrews invading the land of Canaan, they were probably a local group that united with others to create Israel, since their language is almost identical to Phoenician.
Always love content that touches on the Bronze Age
As usual, very well researched and overall great video. I hope you had happy holidays and a happy new year! One little nitpick however, you misspelled Israel :)
If you're considering the Phoenicians to be one specific subgroup of the Northwest Semitic peoples (which is the most common and probably most reasonable way to define things) then you can't consider the modern Arabic or Hebrew abjads to be derived from the Phoenician abjad. They're all closely related, and all derive from earlier Canaanite writing systems, but both modern Hebrew and Arabic scripts are from different forms of Aramaic writing, like the cursive Syriac abjad, in the case of Arabic.
الفينيقيين عرب .. هم قالو بانفسهم و منحم سبطيموس العربي حاكم روما و كانو فخورين بعروبتهم
Who are the descendents of the Phoenicians?
مدن الساحل اللبناني و السوري ... أنظر الى الممثل السوري غسان مسعود فهو من مدينة ارواد الفينيقية .. و سكان قرطاج تونس .. و قرطاجنة في أسبانية و القليل جنوب ايطاليا@@glendacooper2100
@@glendacooper2100 و لا تنسى الكثير منهم تلاشى .. حاكم روما سبطيمو الفينيقي و فيثاغورس فينيقي و الملكة اوروبا فينيقية هؤلا صارو فاليونان و ايطاليا
My feed is now suddenly filled to the brim with alphabet nursery rhymes after watching this video.
Hey man great work about phonecians im already working on a thesis about them! Really like to see your sources as well in the description could come use of it.
The Phoenician alphabet were themselves derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphs, so didn't come from nowhere. But it'strue they are the first alphabet, or at least syllabary, in our western world - syllabary meaning they show the syllable but not every sound. They didn't show the vowels, except a few double as a vowel in some places: those letters for consonants y (7th letter), w (6th), and alaph/aleph (1st) - where the Greek got alpha, and Latin the 'a' letter. You see the aleph letter (on top left) looks like a badly written A fallen on its left side.
So, in a way the Greek, who got their alphabets from these Phoenician ones, were the inventors of 1st actual alphabets. You can see how some of those letteres resemble Latin letetrs, but even more clearly the capital Greek letters, which were the original for Greek, likewise in Latin. Which is derived from the Greek alphabet, there's a video of that in TH-cam. Search 'Origin of Latin letters' or alike.
Purple colour was made from that sea animals yes. The funny thing was, the colour needed urine in its manufacturing process, and it was a difficult colour to get - and thus expensive. So the aristocracy, the nobles who wore it as a sign of wealth, smelled of piss :)
Israel split of Juda, not the other way around. It was the line of King David, of the House of Judah which continued on the throne of Judah, and the state of Israel chose another house. But their house soon collapsed and that Kingdom was riddled with inner power struggle until the Assyrians wiped it out and dispersed the population. Those people disappeared. So those Jewish genes were spread all over what's now Irak, Syria, Turkey, Jordania etc.
Some how Phoenicia makes me remember Portugal.
Absolutely! They were the 1st settlers in Burtoukal! They started the 1st port & shipbuilding in Porto!
@Fatin Marwat The Greeks know that they are an offshoot of the Phoenicians as well.
Google "Almendres oldest megaliths in Europe" then google "cup ring marks Israel India Canaan": Israel, their fellow Canaanites, were the astronomers (navigators) whereas Phoenicia specialty was building the boats, thus these 2 tribes (winners of Canaanite civil wars of ~1,200 BC, the Bronze Age Collapse) needed each other. Torah mentions Cadiz as a city called "Gadis" with a TIN MINE inland of there called TARSHISH (archaeologists identified a tin mine inland of Cadiz called TARTESSOS by the native Celts). Cadiz is confirmed to have CANAANITE (Bronze Age, when today's Lebanon+Israel were united) megaliths.
In that Logic, Carthage is Brazil!
@@SamucaGamer100 Most likely
I always thought that Lebanon and Syria were one people, but now the difference has become clear to me. Thank you
PROUD TO BE CANANITE/PHOENICIAN!!! 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
Arabs
@@jotaro2690 no not arabs. DNA has already proven that Lebanese are the Cannanite/Phoenicians.
@@nadimlawandos6063 yes but the canaanites share the same dna as the arabs
@@jotaro2690 no my friend they don't you are mistaken
@@jotaro2690 and you can ask any genetic laboratory they will tell you the same