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The standard foundation myth across all sources is that the city was founded by colonists from the ancient Phoenician city-state of Tyre, led by its exiled princess Dido (also known as Queen Elissa or Alissar). [26] Dido's brother, Pygmalion (Phoenician: Pummayaton) had murdered her husband, the high priest of the city, and taken power as a ...
Carthage[ a ] was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilisation of Ancient Carthage and later Roman ...
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as theQarafa (Arabic: القرافة, romanized:al-Qarafa; locally pronounced as al-'arafa), [ 1 ] is a series of vast Islamic -era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. They extend to the north and to the south of the Cairo Citadel, below the Mokattam Hills and outside the ...
Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [110] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about the djinn in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop the demons from destroying ...
Archaic humans emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the emergence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in East Africa around 300,000–250,000 years ago. In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [1] and later in Nubia 's Kush, the Horn of Africa 's Dʿmt, and Ifrikiya 's Carthage. [2]
Natufian culture (/ nəˈtuːfiən / [ 1 ]) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric [ 2 ] Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. [ 3 ] The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture.
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the " Out of Africa " theory (OOA) [ a ] is the most widely accepted [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then ...
Egyptian Empire. Syria (Roman province) Phoenicia (/ fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə /), [ 4 ] or Phœnicia, or the Phoenician city-states, were an ancient Semitic maritime civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [ 5 ][ 6 ] The territory of the Phoenicians ...