11-11-2021, 07:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2021, 07:17 AM by Alan_Boskov.)
Robrecht Wrote:...This would also relate the Phoenicians with the sea peoples and thus also with the Philistines.
We are all related, up to a certain level. To what measure the DNAs of both groups interchange may never be known, since neither group was known for practicing mummification.
Both worshiped different gods and specialized in different crafts from one another. Since Phoenecian temples were opened to persons of all ethnic groups, there could have been interactions taking place beyond religious. The Phoenecians also had an alphabet, at the time the Philistines were still using charachters as a form of documenting expression. In fact, if my memory doesen't fail me, they had established the very first alphabet:
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