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Josephine Crawley Quinn (born 1973) is an historian and archaeologist, working across Greek, Roman and Phoenician history. Since the 1st of January 2025 she is the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, and is a fellow at St. John's College.
Hipparchus lived in Rhodes and may have gotten this information from Phoenicians sailors, since they had full control of the western Mediterranean in those times. In 2019, the Phoenician Ship Expedition by Philip Beale used a replica of an ancient Phoenician ship to sail from Carthage , Tunisia to Santo Domingo intending to demonstrate the ...
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 ...
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. [5] They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in ...
Chicago by Night is a setting sourcebook for the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, where players take the roles of vampires. [2] The book describes Chicago and gives storytellers [a] information to build a campaign set there, [3] [4] with its history and geography reinterpreted for the setting as one of the cities with the largest populations of vampires, and home to some of ...
This 83-year-old Chicago senior has lived in South Shore for 50 years — now she keeps getting offers to buy her home ‘as is.’ Why outside investors are gobbling up properties in the area.
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern ...
The Phoenician colonial system was motivated by economic opportunity, not expansionist ideology, and as such, the Phoenicians lacked the numbers or even the desire to establish an "empire" overseas. The colonies were therefore independent city-states, though most were relatively small, probably having a population of less than 1,000.