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  • Phoenician Colonists Traveled with the Scents of Home

    09/03/2025 8:30:06 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | August 27, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    As Phoenician sailors ventured into the waters of the western Mediterranean Sea to establish new settlements in the early first millennium b.c., they deliberately brought the familiar scents of home with them, according to a statement issued by the University of Tübingen. Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) recently analyzed more than 50 miniature ceramic vessels found in ancient tombs, houses, and sacred areas at a Phoenician site on the island of Motya, off the west coast of Sicily. The study determined that all had been made in southern Phoenicia, near present-day Beirut,...