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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aramaic alphabet (3899 words) |
 | The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it began to fall out of use in the 5th century BCE with the adoption of the Aramaic alphabet as a writing system for Hebrew and... |
| The use of Aramaic as a lingua franca throughout the Middle East from the 8th century BCE led to the gradual adoption of the Aramaic alphabet for writing Hebrew. |
| Controversially, it is claimed that the Aramaic alphabet may be the forebear of the Indic alphabets. |
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BIGpedia - Ibiza - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (305 words) |
| In 654 BCE Carthaginian settlers founded a port in the Balearic Islands, as Ibossim, later known to Romans (as "Ebusus") for its wine, marble, and lead. |
| Ibiza became a major Carthaginian colony, and the island produced dye, salt, fish sauce (garum), and wool. |
| A shrine with offerings to the goddess Tanit was established in the cave at Es Cuyram, and the rest of the Balearic Islands entered Eivissa's commercial orbit after 400 BCE. |
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