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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... means inexhaustible supplies of wheat and oil were just sufficient to pay for the temple . The cost of the palace , which Solomon also ordered from Tyre — it was almost as big as all the rest of Jerusalem together — was beyond even his ...
... means inexhaustible supplies of wheat and oil were just sufficient to pay for the temple . The cost of the palace , which Solomon also ordered from Tyre — it was almost as big as all the rest of Jerusalem together — was beyond even his ...
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... means that long before Vasco da Gama , the Phoenicians succeeded in an enterprise - the voyage round Africa — which even in the fifteenth century so impressed the civilized world that they honoured the Portuguese count as one of the ...
... means that long before Vasco da Gama , the Phoenicians succeeded in an enterprise - the voyage round Africa — which even in the fifteenth century so impressed the civilized world that they honoured the Portuguese count as one of the ...
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The Purple Empire of the Ancient World Gerhard Herm. what the word Europa really means . Some say it means ' broad- faced ' and that it is another name for the moon goddess , the bestower of life and death , which was also given to the ...
The Purple Empire of the Ancient World Gerhard Herm. what the word Europa really means . Some say it means ' broad- faced ' and that it is another name for the moon goddess , the bestower of life and death , which was also given to the ...
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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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