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Thanks decimon.
:') And King Tut was black. And there was no slavery in ancient Egypt. And the Aryans have always lived in India. And the British are indigenous to Britain (or as one wag put it, are descended from "symbolically transformed reindeer"). Carthage had a spectacularly engineered artificial port, set up to accommodate both military and commercial needs -- and yet hardly anything survived from that, or from the mighty walls of Carthage. There's been a weird undercurrent lasting a few generations, to construct a smiley-face mask over the reality of Carthage, and of course this is part of the campaign to smear ancient Rome.
The Phoenicians impress me because of their successful maritime commerce and various navies (since they remained independent city-states to the end), which took them all the way around Africa, led them to explore, colonize, and trade with western Africa as far south as modern Cameroon. Their consumption of the flesh of their own young doesn't impress me all that much -- except in a negative way.
Thanks for that link in FReepmail, I've yet to get to it, but hope to in a few minutes.
To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.
GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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