The Phoenicia is the only traditionally-built replica of a Phoenician ship in the world
Posted on 02/08/2020 10:08:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The replica of a wooden Phoenician ship, which visited Lyme Regis last year, has completed its 6,000 mile voyage across the Atlantic.
The Phoenicia visited Lyme Regis last July before setting out on its voyage from the old port of Carthage, Tunisia, in September. It called in at Cadiz (Spain), Essaouira (Morocco), Tenerife (Canary Islands) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) before arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club on Thursday, February 4...
The ship's trans-Atlantic voyage was part of the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition, designed, with the help of the US-based Phoenician International Research Center, to show that Phoenician ships could have crossed the Atlantic over 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the American continent.
British adventurer and expedition Leader Philip Beale FRGS, captains The Phoenicia, sailing with a multi-national crew with representatives from the United States, the Lebanon, Tunisia, the UK, Norway, Holland, Brazil and Indonesia...
In the UK, Phoenicians Before Columbus is approved by the UK's Scientific Exploration Society and the expedition is the proud recipient of the 2019 Captain Scott Society's 'Spirit of Adventure' Award.
(Excerpt) Read more at lyme-online.co.uk ...
Ooooh! This week, the Digest folks get a second ping!
Have occasionally toyed with the idea of writing something set in that time frame but I think unless you have actually been in one of those types of vessels you have trouble understanding the feel of them.
And that is the kind of thing that gets your book tossed across the room and scathing letters from readers.
Whoa!! What a beauty!!
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If they didn’t document it, it didn’t happen...
Maybe that could have, but where’s the documentation?
Phoenician ships could have crossed the Atlantic over 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the American continent.
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NOTE...could have...
If I had known in 1956 that I could have DECLARED I was a black female with talent, Lord only knows that I COULD have been the 1st Black Female President are at least an NFL or NBA super star...
We can suspect I am ‘wrong’, but......
Didn’t they still believe that dragons and such occupied the area right behind the end of what the eye could see?
Didn’t C Columbus have to ‘Shanghai’ most of his crew because the common ‘fear’ was ‘falling off the edge’?
WE all now know that the world ISN’T flat, because cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
By that standard, they didn’t build their cities and live in them, either.
So did the Souterrain ships 20,000-15,000 years before them.
A: No, they didn’t.
A: No, he didn’t.
Yeah, a real beauty.
Strangely, I see modern electronics on the ship on the raised platform.
We know that circumnavigated Africa.
It is in a book.
No he had to get most of his crew from prisons because people knew that the earth was much bigger then he said it was.
They were right.
If he had not had the luck to run into a place where he could take on fresh food and water they would have all died.
Columbus really sucked at math.
“There is an island, in the Atlantic ocean....”
I imagine a lot of the ancient Europeans, Asians and North Africans made it to the Americas.
Probably did not make it back tho.
There is a group of people in Appalachia called Melungians. I once saw a photo of one taken around 1910. I immediately thought, “Portuguese”.
Was surprised to read later that many of them very early called themselves Portuguese. They probably predated Columbus.
If they didn’t document it, it didn’t happen...
Maybe that could have, but where’s the documentation?
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Losing a major war, having your cities burned to the ground and then scattered no stone upon another and the ground salted might have something to do with no surviving documentation.
It’s probably like going to the moon in the 70’s. Been there, done that, no reason to go back. No profit. Not until the Spanish saw all the gold that the natives had collected.
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