For logistical reasons, modern enclave Hotel Palomar Phoenix gets our nod over more established spots like Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star The Phoenician on this quick trip.
Setting sail from Syria in 2008, The Phoenician covered 32, 000 kilometers over two years, battling everything from six-meter waves off the Cape of Good Hope to Somali pirates.
The Phoenician explorer Pytheas sailed along the British coast in about 250BC and "mentioned a place called Orca where there were waves of immense size", said the website.
Look for cameos of the The British School of Falconry at The Equinox, a Mother of Pearl pool at The Phoenician and an iconic pink beach tower at The Royal Hawaiian.
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Dr Zalloua says in Lebanon the Phoenician signature is distributed equally among different groups and that the overall genetic make-up of the Lebanese is proving to be similar across various backgrounds.
There is a good chance that Nabil is of Phoenician descent - the study has revealed that while one in 17 people across the Mediterranean carry the Phoenician gene, in Lebanon almost a third of the population have Phoenician roots.
But most exciting were the dozens of square clay tablets inscribed with letters which, if Neolithic, predated by many millennia the Phoenician characters from which Western alphabets were supposed to have come making Glozel, not the Middle East, the cradle of Western civilisation.
Highly skilled in metalwork, ivory carving and glass-making, the name Phoenician derives from the iconic purple color they used to dye their superior textiles.
Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.
The boat was modeled on an ancient 19-meter Phoenician shipwreck excavated off the coast of Marseille.
At a Lowe's in West Virginia, one Phoenician put 20 five-gallon coolers near the contractor area and sold them all by the time he left in the afternoon.
"Phoenicians started the civilization, they are the ones who invented the alphabet, I would be very proud to be a Phoenician, " he adds.
To understand, one must first go back thousands of years to Phoenician times, when black-hooved pigs (another name for the breed is pata negra, or black hoof) were introduced to an oak-grove ecosystem in southwestern Spain known as the dehesa.
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