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"map of Phoenicia", apparently intended to give a rough idea of the part of the Levant known as "Phoenicia", it does not correspond to any historical empire or polity. The cities indicated are the ancient Phoenician city states, perhaps in the Late Bronze Age (?) Date: 20 May 2008: Source: This map: Author: Kordas, based on Alvaro's work: Other ...
The resort opened for business on October 1, 1988, [7] The hotel initially had 604 rooms, 132 casitas, a VIP suite and a presidential suite. The dome in the hotel's lobby was covered with 24 karat gold, and the cactus garden, which contained over 250 varieties of cacti, was the second largest in the state when it was completed. [ 5 ]
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. [1]
Phoenician art was largely centered on ornamental objects, particularly jewelry, pottery, glassware, and reliefs. Large sculptures were rare; figurines were more common. Phoenician goods have been found from Spain and Morocco to Russia and Iraq; much of what is known about Phoenician art is based on excavations outside Phoenicia proper.
The name Phoenician is by convention given to inscriptions beginning around 1050 BC, because Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time. [27] [47] The so-called Ahiram epitaph, engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram from about 1000 BC, shows a fully developed Phoenician script. [48] [49 ...
The Heard Ranch Grain Silos were built in 1930 and are located within the golf course of the Legacy Resort in the vicinity of 30th Street and Vineyard Road. The ranch belonged to businessman Dwight B. Heard, who is given much of the credit for the Arizona Republic newspaper (of which he was publisher), the Heard Museum and the development of ...
Doak, Brian R., and Carolina López-Ruiz (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean, Oxford Handbooks (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 12 Aug. 2019), Herm, Gerhard (1975). The Phoenicans The Purple Empire of the Ancient World. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-02908-6.
Officer, James E. Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856 (U. of Arizona Press, 1987) Sheridan, Thomas E. Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941 (U. of Arizona Press, 1986) Sheridan, Thomas E. "The limits of power: the political ecology of the Spanish Empire in the Greater Southwest." Antiquity 66.250 (1992): 153–171. online