Phoenicians

3 09, 2017

Who were the Etruscans? History of Italy

By |2018-10-02T12:06:39-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|Comments Off on Who were the Etruscans? History of Italy

Etruscan tomb sculpture: the Etruscans liked fancy tombs From Villanovans to Etruscans Around 700 BC, the Bronze Age people we call the Villanovans started to get ideas from the Greeks and Phoenicians who were sailing around the [...]

18 07, 2017

Battle of Salamis – Second Persian War

By |2018-04-23T08:06:26-07:00July 18th, 2017|Greeks, War|Comments Off on Battle of Salamis – Second Persian War

Phoenician ship In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes was attacking Greece. Things looked very bad for the Greeks, when the Greek navy, under the command of the Athenian general Themistocles, wrecked the Persian fleet [...]

18 06, 2017

Who was the African god Bes?

By |2019-03-22T06:51:30-07:00June 18th, 2017|Egypt|Comments Off on Who was the African god Bes?

The Egyptian god Bes An African god Beginning about 2500 BC, near the end of the Old Kingdom period in Egypt, people started worshipping a new god, Bes. Nobody knows [...]

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