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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... harbour in a ' Punic landscape ' The harbour at Byblos , as Renan found it 64-65 Renan was the first to dig here : the excavations at Byblos Foundations of the hippodrome at Tyre The cedar woods were their capital - one of the remaining ...
... harbour in a ' Punic landscape ' The harbour at Byblos , as Renan found it 64-65 Renan was the first to dig here : the excavations at Byblos Foundations of the hippodrome at Tyre The cedar woods were their capital - one of the remaining ...
Page 66
... harbour was made , by filling in and excavation , and to the south the outer or Egyptian harbour , by building quays and jetties . Over the smaller , newly won island— it lay to the east of the larger reef and therefore nearer to the ...
... harbour was made , by filling in and excavation , and to the south the outer or Egyptian harbour , by building quays and jetties . Over the smaller , newly won island— it lay to the east of the larger reef and therefore nearer to the ...
Page 69
... harbour was especially en- dangered by the shifting sand - drifts , they constructed a system of tidal basins and canals , which in certain winds permitted clean surface water to be driven into the inner harbour . The silt - carrying ...
... harbour was especially en- dangered by the shifting sand - drifts , they constructed a system of tidal basins and canals , which in certain winds permitted clean surface water to be driven into the inner harbour . The silt - carrying ...
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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