• Western Horizons: Phoenician Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean

    Steinmetz "Archaeological Center" 2901 9th St., Manhattan Beach, United States

    In the tenth century BCE, the Phoenicians — Iron Age Canaanites of the coastal Levant — sailed west to the Iberian peninsula and through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean. They subsequently established colonies in Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, and North Africa. In this talk, we will look at the evidence for when […]