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The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
The Phoenician state of Carthage minted gold staters in 350 BC bearing a pattern in the reverse exergue of the coins, which McMenamin initially interpreted as a map of the Mediterranean with the Americas shown to the west across the Atlantic. [105] [106] McMenamin later demonstrated that these coins found in America were modern forgeries. [107]
Herodotus believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain, [16] [17] a view shared centuries later by the historian Strabo. [18] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren, who noted that Greek geographers described "two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of ...
Le’Keian Woods, a 24-year-old Black man, is in “excruciating pain” and suffering from severe injuries after a violent encounter with Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff's officers last week.
Brown’s arrest affidavit says that an agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement observed an online video showing members of the hate group dressed in black or military-style camouflage ...
Police still don't know how Mangione reached Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was arrested at a McDonald's. He had more than $5,000 in $100 bills with him at the time, Kenny said, and "everything ...
In this instance, the main person of interest in the case was a police officer, so the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI were called in to work on the case. [13] Various investigative techniques were used, including the covert placement of a GPS device on Calkins's vehicle, and a forensic investigation of the patrol car.
Police have made an arrest in the West Springfield murders of 18-year-old Theresa Marcoux and 20-year-old Mark Harnish, who were found shot to death at a rest stop on the morning of Nov. 19, 1978.