This is only tangentially related, but if you like history and ship wrecks and live near Kansas City, go to the Steamboat Arabia museum.

They're digging up a steamboat that sunk, and they found after the river changed its course. It's super cool. When we went the last time we were driving across the states, one of the guys actually doing the excavating was there. He gave our kids a guided tour and talked about all the exhibits with them. It was super cool.

FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

"The wreck will be conserved, protected and eventually reassembled".

I wonder if Phoenicians labelled the parts of ships like their fellow Carthaginians (Chanani)? Or is this a Carthaginian ship but it's referred to as Phoenician?

> They spent 560 hours diving at the wreck site to make detailed diagrams of its many cracks and fissures.

I feel a bit jealous of them, me being in tech, doing hard work like this to preserve the history of humanity.

A good book to read more or less related to this shipwreck:

https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Made-West-History/dp/059372...

Phoenicia will rise again

Preserved ancient shipwrecks are why I don't believe when people say some material "degrades in X years".

How did people come up with alphabet? Phoenicians were one of the first to invent this technology, but I assume language existed way before that? How did that happen? Like, how did people agree on saying certain things to mean specific things? Starting from the mind of the first humans who didn't have language, how did we get to where we had language and it was so ubiquitous that even ancient civilizations like Phoenicians put it in writing?