Phoenicians Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While upgrading water supplies in Andalucia, southern Spain, workers made an unexpected discovery when they came across a well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Phoenicians remain one of the most enigmatic ancient civilizations. Our knowledge of these ancient people is based on scholars' speculations and educated
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest story about Dido was written by Timaeus, an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 3rd century BC. Dido’s original name ‘Elissa’ is related to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ruins of Carthage (its Phoenician name means 'Kart-hadasht '("new town")) are located approximately 18 km northeast of Tunis on the coast of North
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hamsa is an ancient, powerful symbol that is often carried as an amulet to invoke the hand of God, or to counteract the Evil
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The earliest example of our alphabet — a possible mnemonic phrase that helped someone remember "ABCD" — has been discovered on a 3,400-year-old inscribed piece of limestone
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Museum of the Seminary of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada there are two very interesting stones that tell an intriguing story about North
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers are scratching their heads trying to decipher a set of mysterious carvings and script on a 1,700-year-old stone relic. Known as the Stela of Montoro, the
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did the Phoenicians discover America by mistake? The Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) wrote an intriguing account of how the
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most mysterious artifacts we encounter in North America is the puzzling Waubansee Stone. The three-foot-high, 3,000-pound boulder of granite has a
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the Amarna Letters and the annals of Thutmose III, Byblos ('Papyrus' in Greek) was dependent and subservient to Egypt for hundreds of years.
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the 1960s, a fascinating ancient and large seal was discovered by the Old Testament scholar Dr. Marjo Korpel. Scholars assumed that the
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Civilizations
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In this interesting ancient history documentary we are sailing together with the Phoenicians and view the world through their eyes. These people were great maritime
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