The author puts forward the hypothesis that the 'scapegoat' ritual had been introduced to Greece under the influence of the Phoenicians. That opinion is based on five arguments: 1. the etymology of the term suba/xos (connected with Hebr. zebah and Phoen. zbh 'sacr...
THE FIRST ALPHABETS 第一个字母表 Wadi el-Hol 恐怖峡谷(Wadi el-Hol) Until the discovery of two inscriptions (graffiti) in Wadi el-Hol, Egypt, in 1999, it was generally held that the beginnings of alphabetic scripts could be traced to around 1600 to 1500 BC, to the Phoenicians, a people...
2. It is thought the custom of dyeing eggs was brought to Europe during the Middle Ages by the Crusaders, as it was common practice among the Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans to dye eggs for their spring festivals. ...
It was the time of the great empires of the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the New Kingdom Dynasties of Egypt, and the age of Moses. Greece was not the mighty and unified nation that built the Parthenon and killed Socrates; it was a scattered group of nation states loosely associated by blo...
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Whale meat had been eaten by the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians, who probably took beached whales since there is no record of commercial whaling at that time. Romans also wrote of whale meat. Pliny wrote that eating whale meat was good for the teeth. The first commercial whale hunters were...
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In both cases, the priority of Greek knowledge – not that of Egyptians or Phoenicians – is the point (even if lost, and then regained later than others). We do not really know what sources Diodoros was using in most cases. Because he at one point directly draws on...
Punic War (c. 264–241 BCE), Cagliari was conquered by the Romans. Cagliari’s Punic name wasKaraly(Punic:) and Latin name wasCaralis(Wagner 1950). However, scholars believe the name to be not Punic in origin, but likely to have existed even before the arrival of the Phoenicians. ...
(Southwest Asia). Although this makes sense for the south-west of the peninsula due to the historical presence of the Phoenicians, Jews, Arabs and Berbers, it is still unclear why the north-west (North Portugal, Galicia, Leon, Asturias) follows the exact same pattern on all levels (...