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 51
... beginning of the next . The Thekel were Aryans , a splinter group remaining from the third of the invasionary forces which attacked Egypt in the half- millennium between 1,700 BC and 1,200 BC . Their existence explains why at the time ...
... beginning of the next . The Thekel were Aryans , a splinter group remaining from the third of the invasionary forces which attacked Egypt in the half- millennium between 1,700 BC and 1,200 BC . Their existence explains why at the time ...
Page 134
... beginning of their expansion overseas : the Cretan Thalassocracy no longer existed , the sea was free , and they also possessed good ships and daring captains . What was there to prevent them expanding their trade operations directly ...
... beginning of their expansion overseas : the Cretan Thalassocracy no longer existed , the sea was free , and they also possessed good ships and daring captains . What was there to prevent them expanding their trade operations directly ...
Page 265
... beginning of a new concept of Carthage . It would have immense significance . At the time when Virgil was writing , in the reign of the Emperor Augustus , Rome was beginning to welcome exotic , particularly eastern , ideas . This soon ...
... beginning of a new concept of Carthage . It would have immense significance . At the time when Virgil was writing , in the reign of the Emperor Augustus , Rome was beginning to welcome exotic , particularly eastern , ideas . This soon ...
Contents
The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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