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Book Phoenicians in the Lands of Gold

Download or read book Phoenicians in the Lands of Gold written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical research on Philippine’s past, in relation to the maritime Phoenician traders, based on four main areas: Iconography of the Phoenician Religion, Ancient Glass and Gold technologies and motifs, Proto-Canaanite Alphabet on tribal beads, and Impact of the Phoenicians on the languages and historical traditions of the Lands of Gold.

Book Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age

Download or read book Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age written by Joan Aruz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the research of internationally renowned scholars, Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age contributes significantly to our understanding of the epoch-making artistic and cultural exchanges that took place across the Near East and Mediterranean in the early first millennium B.C. This was the world of Odysseus, in which seafaring Phoenician merchants charted new nautical trade routes and established prosperous trading posts and colonies on the shores of three continents; of kings Midas and Croesus, legendary for their wealth; and of the Hebrew Bible, whose stories are brought vividly to life by archaeological discoveries. Objects drawn from collections in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the United States, reproduced here in sumptuous detail, reflect the cultural encounters of diverse populations interacting through trade, travel, and migration as well as war and displacement. Together, they tell a compelling story of the origins and development of Western artistic traditions that trace their roots to the ancient Near East and across the Mediterranean world. Among the masterpieces brought together in this volume are stone reliefs that adorned the majestic palaces of ancient Assyria; expertly crafted Phonecian and Syrian bronzes and worked ivories that were stored in the treasuries of Assyria and deposited in tombs and sanctuaries in regions far to the west; and lavish personal adornments and other luxury goods, some imported and others inspired by Near Eastern craftsmanship. Accompanying texts by leading scholars position each object in cultural and historical context, weaving a narrative of crisis and conquest, worship and warfare, and epic and empire that spans both continents and millennia. Writing another chapter in the story begun in Art of the First Cities (2003) and Beyond Babylon (2008), Assyria to Iberia offers a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in an age of imperial and mercantile expansion in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterranean in the first millennium B.C.—the dawn of the Classical age.

Book Mountains of Silver   Rivers of Gold

Download or read book Mountains of Silver Rivers of Gold written by Ann Neville and published by University of British Columbia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on both literary and archaeological sources, this book offers an analysis of the Phoenicians in Iberia: their settlements, material culture, contacts with the local people, and their agricultural and cultural, as well as commercial, activities. It concludes that the Phoenician presence in Iberia gave rise to a truly western form of Phoenician culture, one that was enriched by and drew from contacts with the local population, forming a characteristic identity, still visible when the Romans arrived in the Peninsula." --Book Jacket.

Book Mountains of Silver and Rivers of Gold

Download or read book Mountains of Silver and Rivers of Gold written by Ann Neville and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional picture of the Phoenicians in Iberia is that of wily traders drawn there by the irresistible lure of the fabulous mineral wealth of the El Dorado of the ancient world. However, a remarkable series of archaeological discoveries, starting in the 1960s, have transformed our understanding of the Phoenicians and allow us to glimpse a picture of life in the Far West that is far richer, and more complex, than the traditional mercantile hypothesis. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, this books offers an in-depth analysis of the Phoenicians in Iberia: their settlements, material culture, contacts with the local people, and activities; agricultural and cultural, as well as commercial. It concludes that the Phoenician presence in Iberia gave rise to a truly western form of Phoenician culture, one that was enriched and drew from contacts with the local population, forming a characteristic identity, still visible on the arrival of the Romans in the Peninsula.

Book The Phoenicians

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  • Author : Katherine E. Reece
  • Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
  • Release : 2004-08-01
  • ISBN : 1612364357
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book The Phoenicians written by Katherine E. Reece and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Ancient Phoenician Civilization's Importance, Place In History, And Major Contributions To Society.

Book The Muslim Empire and the Land of Gold

Download or read book The Muslim Empire and the Land of Gold written by Rodney J. Phillips and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the edge of the Rift Valley in Saudi Arabia is perhaps one of the most stunning places uncovered in history. Rediscovered in May of 2007, the Gold Fields of Ophir had once disappeared from man, hiding a veritable treasure trove of ancient history. The Muslim Empire gives us a closer look at the history and geography of this ancient Biblical culture.

Book The Phoenicians

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  • Author : Donald Benjamin Harden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Phoenicians written by Donald Benjamin Harden and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of their history and culture. For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Book Israel  India  Persia  Phoenicia  Minor nations of western Asia

Download or read book Israel India Persia Phoenicia Minor nations of western Asia written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Primitive Money

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  • Author : Paul Einzig
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2014-05-16
  • ISBN : 1483157156
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Primitive Money written by Paul Einzig and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitive Money: In its Ethnological, Historical and Economic Aspects: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged deals with the study of the role of money in the past and in selected regions of the world. This selection is divided into three sections, designated as Book I, Book II, and Book III. Book I discusses the ethnology of money extending back to more than 5,000 years ago, to the dark age when not much written evidence existed, and to today's various communities scattered around the world. The text covers the regions of Oceania, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Book II looks into the historical aspect of money, from the ancient period comprising prehistoric currencies such as tools and ornaments, to the Medieval period, and then to modern times. Book III is the theoretical section that attempts to define primitive money, its functions, and its perceived value. This book applies something modern when it discusses primitive monetary policy, such as active and passive attitudes of the State, restrictionist policy, stabilizationist policy, and expansionist monetary policy. This section also discusses the philosophy of primitive money, and its economic and historical roles. The change from primitive to modern money is examined, and the future prospects such as the continuance or redemption of primitive money is discussed. Anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, students and academicians doing sociological research, and even businessmen and industrialists can benefit from reading this text.

Book The Phoenicians

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  • Author : Vadim S. Jigoulov
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2021-11-11
  • ISBN : 1789144795
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Phoenicians written by Vadim S. Jigoulov and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians. The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean. Two aspects of the book stand out from other studies of Phoenician history: the source-focused approach and the attention paid to the various ways that biases—ancient and modern—have contributed to widespread misconceptions about who the Phoenicians really were. The book describes and analyzes various artifacts (epigraphic, numismatic, and material remains) and considers how historians have derived information about a people with little surviving literature. This analysis includes a critical look at the primary texts (classical, Near Eastern, and biblical), the relationship between the Phoenician and Punic worlds; Phoenician interaction with the Greeks and others; and the repurposing of Phoenician heritage in modernity. Detailed and engrossing, The Phoenicians casts new light on this most enigmatic of civilizations.

Book Phoenicia

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  • Author : J. Brian Peckham
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2014-10-23
  • ISBN : 1575068966
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Phoenicia written by J. Brian Peckham and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But along with this fairly well-known reality, many mysteries remain, in part because the record of the coastal cities and regions that the people of Phoenicia inhabited is fragmentary and episodic. In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of the land, its history, its people, and its culture. In fact, it was not the Phoenicians but the Canaanites who invented the alphabet; what distinguished the Phoenicians in their turn was the transmission of the alphabet, which was a revolutionary invention, to everyone they met. The Phoenicians were traders and merchants, the Tyrians especially, thriving in the back-and-forth of barter in copper for Levantine produce. They were artists, especially the Sidonians, known for gold and silver masterpieces engraved with scenes from the stories they told and which they exchanged for iron and eventually steel; and they were builders, like the Byblians, who taught the alphabet and numbers as elements of their trade. When the Greeks went west, the Phoenicians went with them. Italy was the first destination; settlements in Spain eventually followed; but Carthage in North Africa was a uniquely Phoenician foundation. The Atlantic Spanish settlements retained their Phoenician character, but the Mediterranean settlements in Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, and Malta were quickly converted into resource centers for the North African colony of Carthage, a colony that came to eclipse the influence of the Levantine coastal city-states. An emerging independent Western Phoenicia left Tyre free to consolidate its hegemony in the East. It became the sole west-Asiatic agent of the Assyrian Empire. But then the Babylonians let it all slip away; and the Persians, intent on war and world domination, wasted their own and everyone’s time trying to dominate the irascible and indomitable Greeks. The Punic West (Carthage) made the same mistake until it was handed off to the Romans. But Phoenicia had been born in a Greek matrix and in time had the sense and good grace to slip quietly into the dominant and sustaining Occidental culture. This complicated history shows up in episodes and anecdotes along a frangible and fractured timeline. Individual men and women come forward in their artifacts, amulets, or seals. There are king lists and alliances, companies, and city assemblies. Years or centuries are skipped in the twinkling of any eye and only occasionally recovered. Phoenicia, like all history, is a construct, a product of historiography, an answer to questions. The history of Phoenicia is the history of its cities in relationship to each other and to the peoples, cities, and kingdoms who nourished their curiosity and their ambition. It is written by deduction and extrapolation, by shaping hard data into malleable evidence, by working from the peripheries of their worlds to the centers where they lived, by trying to uncover their mentalities, plans, beliefs, suppositions, and dreams in the residue of their products and accomplishments. For this reason, the subtitle, Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean, is a particularly appropriate description of Peckham’s masterful (posthumous) volume, the fruit of a lifetime of research into the history and culture of the Phoenicians.

Book The Story of Phoenicia

Download or read book The Story of Phoenicia written by George Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land of Gold  Diamonds and Ivory

Download or read book The Land of Gold Diamonds and Ivory written by Joseph Forsyth Ingram and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Phoenicia

Download or read book History of Phoenicia written by George Rawlinson and published by London : Longmans. This book was released on 1889 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phoenicia

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  • Author : John Kenrick
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1855
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Phoenicia written by John Kenrick and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Phoenicia   The Story of Ancient Egypt

Download or read book The Story of Phoenicia The Story of Ancient Egypt written by George Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: