Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

Among other things, the Phoenicians brought with them their interchangeable written characters, which, because they were easily learned, were widely adopted into daughter scripts, such as Greek and Latin and Cyrillic and French and English.

Phoenician was translated in 1758 by this man, the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy.

We are all Phoenicians in some ways.

Around 800 or so BCE, the Phoenicians established a seaside colony in the center of North Africa, shown here in the yellow circle.