Concerning the political history of Phœnicia we know little, as has already been said. When her wealthy cities were attacked by foreigners, these strangers have sometimes told the story from their own point of view, but so far as government in times of peace, local administration and kindred matters, material has not survived to allow its course of progress to be reconstructed.
GROWTH OF THE ALPHABET.
[1] Rawlinson: Phoenicia, 3.
[2] Rawlinson: Phoenicia, 11.
[3] Rawlinson: Phoenicia, 17.
[4] I Kings, 5, 1-18.
[5] Ezekiel 26, 3-14.
[6] See The Story of the Persians.
[7] Rawlinson; Phoenicia, 231.