WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -1320±50 BC, is the earliest evidence of pegged Phoenician joints used in Mediterranean shipbuilding. The ship’s hull was built with Lebanese cedar, with oak tenons .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenicians used the Cedars for their merchant fleets. They needed timbers for their ships and the Cedar woods made them the “first sea trading nation in the world”. The Egyptians used cedar resin for the mummification process and the cedar wood for some of “their first hieroglyph bearing rolls of papyrus”.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Epic of Gilgamesh describes the cedar forests of Lebanon as being “one thousand leagues long and one thousand leagues wide”. However, it was the Phoenicians along the coast of present-day Lebanon and from such ancientcities as Byblos, Tyre and Sidon, who became the principal dealers in the timber of the cedar.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Phoenicians traded salt, wine, dried fish, cedar, pine, metalwork, glass, embroidery, fine linen, and cloth dyed with the famous Tyrian purple.