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 16
... completely dried up by the following spring . Sand - drifts fill whole valleys , rocks crumble away , and even mountains do not keep their shape for long . Only the sky is always there . By day the giant , eternally blue dome with its ...
... completely dried up by the following spring . Sand - drifts fill whole valleys , rocks crumble away , and even mountains do not keep their shape for long . Only the sky is always there . By day the giant , eternally blue dome with its ...
Page 221
... completely disregarding all existing treaties , he prepared to win back the lost territory . In the year 398 BC the dictator struck . He captured Motya ( Mozia ) on the west coast of the island , a city which , like Tyre , stood ...
... completely disregarding all existing treaties , he prepared to win back the lost territory . In the year 398 BC the dictator struck . He captured Motya ( Mozia ) on the west coast of the island , a city which , like Tyre , stood ...
Page 231
... completely true , but it cannot have been entirely fabricated . Carthage , nominally still a colony of Tyre , was even more nominally a vassal state of Persia . The vast Asiatic empire of Darius would thus only be completely conquered ...
... completely true , but it cannot have been entirely fabricated . Carthage , nominally still a colony of Tyre , was even more nominally a vassal state of Persia . The vast Asiatic empire of Darius would thus only be completely conquered ...
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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