[SunkenCiv]

The Phoenicia is the only traditionally-built replica of a Phoenician ship in the world

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Would love to go visit her.

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.

[Monkey Face]

Whoa!! What a beauty!!

‘Face

:o])

[teeman8r]

If they didn’t document it, it didn’t happen...

Maybe that could have, but where’s the documentation?

[xrmusn]

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.

[PIF]

So did the Souterrain ships 20,000-15,000 years before them.

[Telepathic Intruder]

You could say it had a skeleton crew



The ancient Greeks sailed all around the Mediterranean. One wonders why they didn't at least attempt to sail across the Atlantic.

[Popman]

Strangely, I see modern electronics on the ship on the raised platform.

[blam]

Secrets Of Norse Ships

[jacknhoo]

I’ll bet that trip got damn scary many times.

[Jamestown1630]

That’s pretty cool. Here’s their website:

https://www.phoeniciansbeforecolumbus.com/

[Lurker]

The Phoenicians has radar? That’s awesome.

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Has everyone forgotten Thor Heyerdahl’s Voyage of the RA? First ship broke up, second try made it to Barbados.

I read his books years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/22/archives/the-ra-expeditions-by-thor-heyerdahl-translated-by-patricia.html

[Bob Ireland]

Fascinating! If memory serves, didn't they find a stone or two with Phoenician writing in Tennessee or Carolina?

Go Phoenicia!

[DesertRhino]

Amazing. Great post.

[Redcitizen]

An undiscovered Phoenician skeleton sits on the North American shoreline, an empty wine amphora by his side, waiting for his ship to come in. Better later than never.

[meadsjn]

If people were sailing, it is highly likely that at least a few got blown wherever the wind took them.

So, yes, they probably did cross the Atlantic, whether on purpose or by happenchance.

[SuperLuminal]

That picture is what I was hoping to see when someone told me Jerry Jones’ took his new yacht to the Super Bowl...

[HamiltonJay]

There is no doubt other cultures sailed to the America before Columbus but for whatever reason they either did not colonize it, or tried to but failed.

So whether the phonesians found the America’s before Columbus or the Chinese did doesn’t really change the course of human history.

[TXnMA]

Here's a copy of the replica ship photo -- from a link that works:

TXnMA