Ancient Phoenician Shipwreck Recovered, Sank 2.6k Years Ago Off Coast of Spain
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·January 16, 2025ivan_gammel
A good book to read more or less related to this shipwreck:
https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Made-West-History/dp/059372...
behnamoh
How did people come up with alphabet? Phoenicians were one of the first to invent this technology, but I assume language existed way before that? How did that happen? Like, how did people agree on saying certain things to mean specific things? Starting from the mind of the first humans who didn't have language, how did we get to where we had language and it was so ubiquitous that even ancient civilizations like Phoenicians put it in writing?
jph
The Phoenicians picked a short list of sound symbols to help when trading with the Egyptians who used extensive hieroglyphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet
fouronnes3
This is basically unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
detourdog
Realize that any successful language came from a close family with repeative daily tasks. To be successful they would need common terms to cooperate.
This is only tangentially related, but if you like history and ship wrecks and live near Kansas City, go to the Steamboat Arabia museum.
They're digging up a steamboat that sunk, and they found after the river changed its course. It's super cool. When we went the last time we were driving across the states, one of the guys actually doing the excavating was there. He gave our kids a guided tour and talked about all the exhibits with them. It was super cool.