SPEAKING OF PHOENICIANS, there's more from Sicily:

Phoenician city not destroyed
(ANSA) - Palermo, March 14 - An ancient Phoenician city unearthed in Sicily was inhabited after its supposed destruction, the head of an Italian dig team claims .

"Our finds, including cooking pans, Phoenecian-style vases, small altars and pieces of looms, show Motya had a thriving population long after it is commonly believed to have been destroyed by the Ancient Greeks," said Maria Pamela Toti .

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Digging down into the earth there, the new objects were uncovered and found to date to periods after the city's documented destruction by the Greek tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse in 397 BC. "Now the corroborating evidence has come to light," Toti said .

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The fresh finds come hard on the heels of the discovery at Motya, near Trapani, of an ancient Phoenician temple dubbed "unique" in the West .

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I have more on the latter story here.

(Via Archaeologica News.)