The most famous legacy of Phoenicia is undoubtedly the alphabet but their contribution to the arts, and their role in disseminating the cultures of the ancient world, is equally impressive.
The Phoenicians were the greatest traders in ancient times had traded around the Mediterranean border. They had trading post around the Phoenician colonization. Some of the trading post in Cartage, Cadiz, Cyprus and Rhodes. The traded ivory, cedar wood, wine , embroidered cloth ,wood carvings, pottery, and metal.