Cyprus and the Phoenicians
By Patricia Maynor Bikai
Abstract: Bikai uses Cyprus to explore the post-Bronze Age Collapse expansion of Phoenician trade in the Mediterranean, suggesting that this was used to relieve population pressures and to procure natural resources for the Assyrians. Additionally, Bikai suggests that competition between the Phoenician city-states – Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Arwad etc – provided a further impetus for westwards expansion.
Academic Journal Article in: The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 52, No.4, From Ruins to Riches: CAARI on Cyprus (Dec., 1989), pp. 203-209.
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