The Phoenicians invented a nation - Josephine Quinn

Translation: Mustafa Qasim Long before the Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians sailed across the Mediterranean Sea lengthwise and widthwise, for trade and establishing settlements, and introduced improvements to navigation art, and valuable cultural crafts were associated with them. But the identity of these legendary sailors remains a mystery. The current book dives into ancient literature, inscriptions, coins, and ancient artistic evidence searching for the identities adopted by the Phoenicians, from the East to the Atlantic, and from the Bronze Age to the Late Old Age and beyond, to conclude that the Phoenicians do not exist as a mother or an ethnic group, and that portraying them as a cohesive people with a shared identity, history, and culture occurred in the context of modern nationalist ideologies, which contradicts ancient sources.