During around the same time in history at around 5,000 years ago there was another civilization developing in North Africa around the Mediterranean Sea known as the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians were great sailors and merchants, they taught themselves to places across the ocean. This enabled trade from different lands such as trade of ivory, spices, incense, silver, ornaments, glass, etc. one of the things that were special and only the Phoenicians had them for sell is a rare purple dye just like the dye we used for color cloth.