This collective volume is devoted to the Phoenician and the Punic civilization studied for its own purpose but also for its relationship with contemporaneous cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. The first part discusses the various sources relating to the Phoenician and Punic …
The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civilization…
"This book draws on written sources and archaeological excavations to present the history and archaeology of the Iron Age in the land of Phoenicia. Sader draws on archaeological evidence from Phoenicia proper without filling in gaps with information from the Phoenician colonies …
"This book draws on written sources and archaeological excavations to present the history and archaeology of the Iron Age in the land of Phoenicia. Sader draws on archaeological evidence from Phoenicia proper without filling in gaps with information from the Phoenician colonies …