In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the resolution, and by December 1999, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation was accepting design proposals.
Which best explains why the Phoenician alphabet was developed? to aid in land conquests to help trade transactions to educate the government to stop foreign invasions.
The Phoenicians ARE famous for originating what has become the alphabet we use today. They WERE famous for controlling the salt trade in the Mediterranean and Adriatic - which is what powered their commercial empire.