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The Phoenician gap in our understanding

Eleanor Konik
Nov 27, 2017
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The Carthage of the Punic Wars was founded by the Phoenicians of Tyre.
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Maritime Empires and the West

We in the West seem to spend a lot of time tracing our cultures back to the maritime empires β€” thalassocracies β€” like the Greeks and the Vikings, but we spend very little time talking about the civilization that inspired Greece to consolidate its military power, supplied Egypt with timber, and invented the oldest kno…

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