The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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Page 141
... Africa . Risky as it appeared , the Phoe- nicians carried out his orders , at least in the reverse direction . They launched forth , writes the father of all sensationalist journalism , ' from the Red Sea and sailed across the southern ...
... Africa . Risky as it appeared , the Phoe- nicians carried out his orders , at least in the reverse direction . They launched forth , writes the father of all sensationalist journalism , ' from the Red Sea and sailed across the southern ...
Page 209
... Africa two hundred years earlier . They may have left accounts in archives , and may have been followed by others who added to their fund of experience . Secondly , who else can Hanno's inter- preters have been , knowing names and ...
... Africa two hundred years earlier . They may have left accounts in archives , and may have been followed by others who added to their fund of experience . Secondly , who else can Hanno's inter- preters have been , knowing names and ...
Page 258
... Africa — which went to Massinissa —give up all their warships except for ten triremes , and pay an indemnity of ten thousand talents of silver in fifty yearly instal- ments ; they were forbidden to wage any war outside Africa , or to ...
... Africa — which went to Massinissa —give up all their warships except for ten triremes , and pay an indemnity of ten thousand talents of silver in fifty yearly instal- ments ; they were forbidden to wage any war outside Africa , or to ...
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The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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