Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...
Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...
After the fall of Bronze Age empires, a handful of Phoenician city states emerged from Canaan to dominate Mediterranean trade. This chapter traces their survival, their alphabet, and how ports like ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. (Peter ...
Preface signed: W.S.W. Vaux. With corresponding Hebrew transcript and Latin translation of the inscriptions by W.S.W. Vaux. Cover-title reads: Phoenician inscriptions ...
The obverse of this tridrachm depicts the chief Carthaginian goddess, Tanit, or one of the chief Sicilian goddesses, Demeter or Persephone, whose cult was introduced at Carthage to atone for the ...
Punic Necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza. The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. The Phoenician ...