Some say that the people who ‘ended up’ as Phoenicians were the same people who founded Dynastic Egypt and left the pictures in the eastern desert on their way from Mesopotamia in to the Nile.
Phoenicians were a colonizing seafaring people. They founded Carthage and other settlements across the Mediterranean area. The coexisted with the Egyptians and the Israelite kings. King Hiram of Tyre was a Phoenician king who helped Solomon build the first temple in Jerusalem, furnishing wood, carpenters and stone masons as well as ships for hire to bring in imported goods. Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married Ahab, the king of the Northern kingdom of Israel after the split from Judah-Benjamin. The Egyptians of the Old Testament were from various descendants of conquering peoples, but each new dynasty seemed to want to keep the Egyptian traditions alive, instead of implementing new ones. This practice muddied the history of Egypt for centuries, finally ending with Cleopatra who was a GREEK!....................