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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 47
Page 69
... built , which simply blocked the silt - carrying water , and dredgers then had to be used . The Phoenicians ' clever solution of the same problem was only discovered years later by underwater archaeologists . Historians today are united ...
... built , which simply blocked the silt - carrying water , and dredgers then had to be used . The Phoenicians ' clever solution of the same problem was only discovered years later by underwater archaeologists . Historians today are united ...
Page 129
... built it , not the town or the religious community . " This is the temple which Yehimilk , King of Byblos , erected , ' it says in an inscription which was found in Gebeil . ' May Baal - Shamim and Baalat - Gebal and the whole assembly ...
... built it , not the town or the religious community . " This is the temple which Yehimilk , King of Byblos , erected , ' it says in an inscription which was found in Gebeil . ' May Baal - Shamim and Baalat - Gebal and the whole assembly ...
Page 138
... built a trading station on Ibiza ; a little earlier they were already installed in Malta and the neighbouring island of Gozo . We know that there were at least three Phoenician settlements in Sicily , at Motya , Panormus and Soloeis ...
... built a trading station on Ibiza ; a little earlier they were already installed in Malta and the neighbouring island of Gozo . We know that there were at least three Phoenician settlements in Sicily , at Motya , Panormus and Soloeis ...
Contents
The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Acragas Adonis Agathocles Aphrodite Aradus archaeologists army Assyrian attack Baal Baal-Hammon Babylon Babylonian battle Bedouin building built Byblos called Canaanites Carthage Carthaginians cedar century BC coast colonies commander copper Cyprus east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy Etruscans Ezion-geber fact finally fleet gave Giblites gods Greek Habiru Hamilcar hand Hannibal harbour Hellenes Heracles Herodotus Himilco Hiram Hittites hundred inhabitants island Israel Ithobaal Jahweh Jerusalem Jezebel King kingdom land later Lebanese Lebanon lived Macedonian Mediterranean Melqart merchants metres mountain Nahr neighbours nicians Nile North Africa once Persian Phoe Phoenician political port present-day priest probably Punic race rich Roman Rome ruler sacrifice sailed Sanchuniathon sea cities seems Selinus Semitic sent ships Sicilian Sicily Sidon Sidonians Sinai soldiers Solomon stone story suffetes Syracuse temple territory things thousand took town trade tribes Tyre Tyrians Ugarit vessels victory walls Wen-Amon whole