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<p>[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1669358, member: 44140"]It really is a great book- in the last century, people were trying to prove that the biased accounts of this kind of "barbarity" in the Punic culture by the Greeks and Later the Romans were not true. The Carthaginians / Phoenicians must be misunderstood or there practices grossly exaggerated, by bitter contemporaries. When in fact the stories of sacrificing mass sacrifices are true! </p><p>Let's not forget about the the accomplishments of the Phoenicians, you know the invention of the long distance sea fairing vessel. They were the first to pass through the pillars of Hercules, cough*Melkart* cough and then south along the West African coast, describing weird, savage men with bodies covered with hair. (The Great Apes)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ardos, Phoenicia</p><p>c.450 BC </p><p>AR Stater[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1669358, member: 44140"]It really is a great book- in the last century, people were trying to prove that the biased accounts of this kind of "barbarity" in the Punic culture by the Greeks and Later the Romans were not true. The Carthaginians / Phoenicians must be misunderstood or there practices grossly exaggerated, by bitter contemporaries. When in fact the stories of sacrificing mass sacrifices are true! Let's not forget about the the accomplishments of the Phoenicians, you know the invention of the long distance sea fairing vessel. They were the first to pass through the pillars of Hercules, cough*Melkart* cough and then south along the West African coast, describing weird, savage men with bodies covered with hair. (The Great Apes) Ardos, Phoenicia c.450 BC AR Stater[/QUOTE]
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