Phoenician glass: Did you mean...?

Roman glass perfume bottles. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).

Roman glass bottle. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).

A Roman serving dish, probably for sauces, in blue glass. 1st-2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

Home to some of the Middle East’s most majestic ancient ruins, Lebanon has a rich and varied heritage with over 5,000 years of recorded history. Over the millennia, different conquering empires have left their footprints on the architecture...

The Nimrud Ivories are a vast collection of figures, panels, and plaques, carved from ivory, dated to the 9th to 7th centuries BCE, discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Nimrud. Today, they are considered among the finest archaeological...

The Phoenician alphabet.

An Assyrian relief from King Sargon II's palace at Khorsabad showing a Phoenician ship transporting cedar logs. This type of vessel was probably used for coastal work and transporting goods to shore from larger cargo vessels. 8th century...

A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus

A map of Tartessos, showing its sphere of influence, as well as Greek and Phoenician colonies in southern Spain.

Artist's rendition of a Phoenician ship at sea during a storm. The Phoenicians were a great maritime people and often adorned their ships with horses' heads to honour Yamm, their god of the sea. Although Yamm could raise the seas to sink...