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 91
... stone- squarers : so they prepared timber and stones to build the house . ' They must have carried out the work to perfection , for ' there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house , while it was in building ...
... stone- squarers : so they prepared timber and stones to build the house . ' They must have carried out the work to perfection , for ' there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house , while it was in building ...
Page 112
... stone and richly furnished with vertical stone columns , which according to oriental tradition represented the heavenly beings without portraying them . Like the Jews , the Phoenicians in their early days obviously only rarely dared to ...
... stone and richly furnished with vertical stone columns , which according to oriental tradition represented the heavenly beings without portraying them . Like the Jews , the Phoenicians in their early days obviously only rarely dared to ...
Page 126
... stone fallen from heaven ? That of Baal - Shamim , which also had a golden pillar ? Where were the royal palace and the royal necropolis ? How large was mainland Usu and where was the causeway to the island ? Since the days when Ernest ...
... stone fallen from heaven ? That of Baal - Shamim , which also had a golden pillar ? Where were the royal palace and the royal necropolis ? How large was mainland Usu and where was the causeway to the island ? Since the days when Ernest ...
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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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