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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2616258, member: 83845&quot;]The Carthaginians were ethnically Phoenicians who were responsible for developing one of (if not the) first alphabet in the ancient world which the Greeks took and revolutionized by adding vowels. I think they probably had a thriving culture as well as traditions that we just don&#039;t know as much about because they ended up on the wrong side of history (imagine if the Persians had conquered Greece and we never heard of Socrates, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Pericles etc.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Totally agree with you that they were a brutal Klingonish bunch who had a bad reputation all over the Mediterranean and most certainly practiced child sacrifice. In fact I listened to a lecture once by a professor from Stanford (Dr. Hunt, great lecturer) who made the argument that Hannibal made his famous vow to fight the Romans as his father was offering a replacement sacrifice to Baal for his own life. Hannibal translates to &quot;grace of Baal&quot; which makes this theory even more interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry we got a bit off topic but I love the history component of coin collecting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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