Phoenician alphabet emerges
~1050 BCE · Event
An early consonantal alphabet, spread across the Mediterranean by Phoenician traders; ancestor of the Greek and Latin alphabets and, through Aramaic, of the Hebrew and Arabic scripts.
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Around 1050 BCE
- The Sack of Troy (1184 BCE)
- The death of Hector (1184 BCE)
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- The Wooden Horse (1184 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- The slaughter of the suitors (1175 BCE)
- The Fall of Troy (1184 BCE)
- Reign of Ramesses II (1279 BCE)
- The Wrath of Achilles: the Iliad (1184 BCE)
- The Cyclops Polyphemus (1184 BCE)