Why wasn't the Egyptian civilization maritime?

Egyptian civilization was maritime when you consider ship traffic on the Nile River. That river was an Egyptian ocean unto itself. Egypt had some ships for international trade, but did not long entertain aspirations of being a sea power. read more

Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. read more