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Phoenician ship illustration (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] shundi82 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The red dye mentioned in the illustration is why they were called Phoenicians, even though they were not just one people and called themselves differently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The name Phoenician, used to describe these people in the first millennium B.C., is a Greek invention, from the word phoinix, possibly signifying the color purple-red and perhaps an allusion to their production of a highly prized purple dye.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phoe/hd_phoe.htm

Nice, I had no idea