youtu.be/KuryXLnHsEY Origin of the Phoenicians Herodotus account (written c. 440 BC) refers to the myths of Io and Europa. (History, I:1). According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria ... —Herodotus[1] The Greek historian Strabo believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain.[ 2] Herodotus also believed that the homeland of the Phoenicians was Bahrain.[3][4] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren who said that: In the Greek geographers, for instance, we read of two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Arad, Bahrain, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of Phoenician temples.[5] The people of Tyre in particular have long maintained Persian Gulf origins, and the similarity in the words Tylos and Tyre has been commented upon.[6] However, there is little evidence of occupation at all in Bahrain during the time when such migration had supposedly taken place.[7] Later classicist theories were proposed prior to modern archaeological excavations which revealed no disruption of Phoenician societies between 3200 BC and 1200 BC.[8] 1. The History of Herodotus. Retrieved 21 September 2013. {classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.1.i.html} 2. Ju. B. Tsirkin. Canaan. Phoenicia. Sidon.. p. 274. {aulaorientalis.org/AuOr%20escaneado/AuOr%2019-2001/2/7.pdf} 3. R. A. Donkin. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries, Volume 224. p. 48. {books.google.sa/books?id=leHFqMQ9mw8C&pg=PA48&dq&safe=on&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false} 4. Michael Rice. Bahrain Through The Ages - Archa. pp. 401–402. {books.google.sa/books?id=2hmbc9evgB0C&pg=PA401&dq&safe=on&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false} 5. • Arnold Heeren, p441 6. Rice, Michael (1994). The Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf. Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-415-03268-1. 7. Rice, Michael (1994). The Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf. Routledge. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-415-03268-1. 8. Holst, Sanford (29 June 2008). Origin of the Phoenicians: Interactions in the Early Mediterranean Region. phoenician.org. Retrieved August 1, 2012. {phoenician.org/origin_of_phoenicians.htm}
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