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 29
... continued more than fifty years after the massacre of the Maronites — once again by a Frenchman . In 1919 the Egyptologist Pierre Montet came to Gebeil and was amazed to find a great number of the hieroglyphic tablets which Renan had ...
... continued more than fifty years after the massacre of the Maronites — once again by a Frenchman . In 1919 the Egyptologist Pierre Montet came to Gebeil and was amazed to find a great number of the hieroglyphic tablets which Renan had ...
Page 36
... continued his flight northwards as soon as possible . ' I passed from one country to another , ' he wrote . ' Finally I came to Byblos . ' He had chosen the route which all the refugees from the south took , along the coast of Palestine ...
... continued his flight northwards as soon as possible . ' I passed from one country to another , ' he wrote . ' Finally I came to Byblos . ' He had chosen the route which all the refugees from the south took , along the coast of Palestine ...
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... continued to regard their explanation as the only possible one . Meanwhile , another theory has begun to gain ground . “ The Phoenician and Punic word for sacrifice in the topheth is molk , ' writes Sabatino Moscati , and his British ...
... continued to regard their explanation as the only possible one . Meanwhile , another theory has begun to gain ground . “ The Phoenician and Punic word for sacrifice in the topheth is molk , ' writes Sabatino Moscati , and his British ...
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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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