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2 days ago · The Phoenician alphabet proper was used in Ancient Carthage until the 2nd century BCE, where it was used to write the Punic language. Its direct descendant scripts include the Aramaic and Samaritan alphabets, several Alphabets of Asia Minor, and the Archaic Greek alphabets .
1 day ago · Sarcophagus of Ahiram, which bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet. National Museum of Beirut. Around 1050 BC, the Phoenicians developed a script for writing their own language. The Canaanite-Phoenician alphabet consists of 22 letters, all consonants (and is thus strictly an abjad).
5 days ago · Popular Studies of Ancient Peoples, Home Study Circle Library (Volume XII - Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Persians, Greeks, Macedonians, Romans, Egyptians ...
2 days ago · Pigs were also raised and eaten. Ducks and geese were kept for food, and many of the vast numbers of wild and migratory birds found in Egypt were hunted and trapped. Desert game, principally various species of antelope and ibex, were hunted by the elite; it was a royal privilege to hunt lions and wild cattle.
- Egyptian kings are commonly called pharaohs, following the usage of the Bible. The term pharaoh is derived from the Egyptian per ʿaa (“great estate...
- The two basic types of writing in ancient Egypt were hieroglyphs, which were used for monuments and display, and the cursive form known as hieratic...
- Snefru was the first king of ancient Egypt of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 BCE). He probably built the step pyramid of Maydūm and then modified...
- Menes was the legendary first king of unified Egypt. According to tradition, he joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and e...
- The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
2 days ago · Latin was written in the Latin alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X), derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn drawn from the Greek alphabet and ultimately the Phoenician alphabet.
4 days ago · Continuing our journey to Texas, we encounter a barbecue culture that is deeply ingrained in the state’s history and identity. Texas-style barbecue is all about the beef. Brisket, in particular, takes center stage, with pitmasters spending hours smoking the meat until it reaches a melt-in-your-mouth tenderness.
2 days ago · The goddess of health, Hygieia, must be thrilled to have her head—in this case, the head of a statue—pulled from the dusty ruins of an ancient amphitheater after 2,100 years.. An archeological ...
