PHOENICIAN WATCH:
Did a daring semiliterate sailor wreck a ship off the Israeli coast 2,400 years ago? Parts of two double-handled jugs were found in the waters near Tel Achziv in 2016. Scholars recently deciphered the etched writing on one of them (Rossella Tercatin, Times of Israel).
I posted on this inscription here a couple of days ago. This article includes material from interviews with two of the authors of the underlying article.
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