The history of the discovery of the Phoenicians.

Phoenicians lived on the territory of modern Lebanon, the first half of the 1st millennium BC can be considered the flourishing of their civilization. They were not an agricultural civilization, like their neighbors in Egypt and Mesopotamia, so they began to develop navigation. The Phoenicians built the best ships for that time, invented purple fabrics and the alphabet, and sailed to the Atlantic Ocean, that is, to modern Gibraltar. They founded many cities and colonies, for example, Carthage on the territory of modern Tunisia, it also became a major trade center.