SIDON, LEBANON—A Phoenician statue dating to the sixth century B.C. has been discovered at the Freres College site in southern Lebanon. The statue depicts a priest wearing a pleated kilt with a ...

A huge basin on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, long thought to have been an ancient harbor, was actually a sacred freshwater pool surrounded by Phoenician temples and aligned to the stars ...

The Phoenician people were preeminent merchants, sailors, explorers, and settlers, who—unlike their Syrian and Canaanite neighbors—never sought to create a unified military empire or kingdom.