Phoenicians
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- Genetics
- Burials
- Religion
- Although they were known to be Semitic, the Phoenicians never depicted themselves in their own artwork.
- Unearthed in Lebanon, the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos is festooned with bas-reliefs and engraved with a curse.
- The teeth of 540 individuals in a 2010 study suggest that the majority of remains in one particular tophet were from stillborns.
- By the way, thanks for not....heh, killing us.
- Both please!
- Motya, just off Sicily's western coast was settled by Phoenicians. Evidence of this is a rectangular man-made harbor, known as a ''kothon''. However, archaeologist, Lorenzo Nigro from Sapienza University in Rome, claims the inland basin was actually a ritual pool.
- The freshwater pool was located in the middle of a circular wall enclosing three temples and a Ba'al idol and was also utilized in astronomy. For six decades archaeologists have intensely excavated Motya on San Pantaleo, where it hosted trading vessels from North Africa, Iberia, and Sardinia.
- Between the 7th and 8th centuries BCE, the Phoenicians arrived and intermarried the even lesser known, indigenous Elymians. Then, in the mid-sixth century BCE, the local Phoenicians were ironically invaded by their own relatives, the Carthaginians, led by General Malco wanting to eliminate them as an import/export rival.
- Would you like grapes or figs
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