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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... Egyptian dress , adorned themselves with Egyptian jewels , used the hieroglyph script which had been developed on the Nile , and gave their Baalat the outward appearance of the Egyptian Hathor - Isis , which was why Renan made an ...
... Egyptian dress , adorned themselves with Egyptian jewels , used the hieroglyph script which had been developed on the Nile , and gave their Baalat the outward appearance of the Egyptian Hathor - Isis , which was why Renan made an ...
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... Egypt drove the Hyksos kings from their capital in the Delta and founded the New Kingdom , which was to last for four centuries . It was the first of the three Egyptian victories I have mentioned , and probably the most successful . The ...
... Egypt drove the Hyksos kings from their capital in the Delta and founded the New Kingdom , which was to last for four centuries . It was the first of the three Egyptian victories I have mentioned , and probably the most successful . The ...
Page 85
... Egypt ' and quickly adopted Egyptian customs and the Egyptian way of life . However , this submission to the codes of a foreign civilization did not protect the immigrants from losing their houses and positions when King Amosis drove ...
... Egypt ' and quickly adopted Egyptian customs and the Egyptian way of life . However , this submission to the codes of a foreign civilization did not protect the immigrants from losing their houses and positions when King Amosis drove ...
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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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