• shundi82@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: The red dye mentioned in the illustration is why they were called Phoenicians, even though they were not just one people and called themselves differently.

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      1 year ago

      The name Phoenician, used to describe these people in the first millennium B.C., is a Greek invention, from the word phoinix, possibly signifying the color purple-red and perhaps an allusion to their production of a highly prized purple dye.

      https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phoe/hd_phoe.htm

      Nice, I had no idea