The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. The archaeological site was first surveyed in 1830, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe. Most of the objects by which Phoenician culture is characterised are those that have been recovered scattered among It has a population of 170,956 as of 2022. The history of Italy covers the ancient period, the Middle Ages, and the modern era.Since classical antiquity, ancient Etruscans, various Italic peoples (such as the Latins, Samnites, and Umbri), Celts, Magna Graecia colonists, and other ancient peoples have inhabited the Italian Peninsula. At Carthage, 31% of the urns contained lambs; at Tharros it was 47%. Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus), with an area of 24,100 km 2 (9,305 sq mi). On clear days Tunisia is visible from the island. Lisbon (/ l z b n /; Portuguese: Lisboa ()) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km 2. The Nuragic civilization flourished in Sardinia from 1800 to 500 BC. Santorini (Greek: , pronounced [sandorini]), officially Thira (Greek: ) and classic Greek Thera (English pronunciation / r /), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the Greek mainland. The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion.However, significant local differences developed over the centuries following the foundation of Carthage and other Punic communities elsewhere in North Africa, southern The archaeological evidence, however, suggests a foundation no earlier than the Arqa (Arabic: ; Akkadian: , romanized: Irqata) is a Lebanese village near Miniara in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, 22 km northeast of Tripoli, near the coast.. Marsala (Italian: [marsala], local Sicilian: [massala]; Latin: Lilybaeum) is an Italian town located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost part of Sicily.Marsala is the most populated town in its province and the fifth in Sicily. The town is famous for the docking of Giuseppe Garibaldi on 11 May 1860 (the Expedition of the Thousand) and for its Marsala wine. Generally, colonies founded by the ancient Phoenicians, Carthage, Rome, Alexander the Great and his successors remained tied to The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7000 years. Tyr (r en arabe) se situe dans la Phnicie mridionale, un peu plus de 70 km au sud de Beyrouth (l'antique Bryte) et 35 km au sud de Sidon (Saida en arabe), presque mi-chemin entre Sidon au nord et Acre au sud, et quelques kilomtres au sud du Litani (le Leontes des sources classiques).La ville a environ 42 000 habitants ( tyriens ) dont 85% sont musulmans This former trading post was founded by the Phoenicians and quickly became a major trade hub, thanks to its strategic location. Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.. Pantelleria (Italian pronunciation: [pantelleria]; Sicilian: Pantiddira, Maltese: Pantellerija or Qawsra), the ancient Cossyra or Cossura, is an Italian island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 100 kilometres (55 nautical miles) southwest of Sicily and 60 km (30 nmi) east of the Tunisian coast. Several classical authors date its foundation to around 1100 BC. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained often close, and took specific forms during the period of classical antiquity. The proportion of lamb to human remains differs by site. The first tribes of hunter-gatherers moved down gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC. Baalbek (/ b l b k, b e l b k /; Arabic: , romanized: Balabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km (42 mi) northeast of Beirut.It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. The peninsula is also home to a major archeological site of the island: Tharros archeological site. Contact. Utica was founded as a port located on the trade route leading from Phoenicia to the Straits of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean, facilitating trade in commodities like tin.. It is situated between 38 51' and 41 18' latitude north (respectively Isola del Toro and Isola La Presa) and 8 8' and 9 50' east longitude (respectively Capo dell'Argentiera and Capo Comino). Excavations were performed in the second half of the 19th century by Charles Ernest Beul and by Alfred Louis Delattre. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a caldera. El Jadida (Arabic: , romanized: al-Jadda, [aldadida]; originally known in Berber as Mazien or Mazighen; known in Portuguese as Mazago) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 96 km south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the region of Casablanca-Settat. In antiquity, Italy was the homeland of the Romans and the metropole of the Roman Empire's Archaeological evidence shows that the remains could consist of human infants or lambs, often mixed with small portions of other animals, including cows, pigs, fish, birds, and deer. Geography. The recorded history of Sardinia begins with its contacts with the various people who sought to dominate western Mediterranean trade in Classical Antiquity: Phoenicians, Punics and Romans. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union. The Carthage National Museum was founded in Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath.It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see.. Casa Santa forms part of Erice at the base of Mount Erice, The Chellah or Shalla (Berber languages: Sla or Calla; Arabic: ), is a medieval fortified Muslim necropolis and ancient archeological site in Rabat, Morocco, located on the south (left) side of the Bou Regreg estuary. Department of Classics 410 Blegen Library PO Box 210226 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0226 Phone | (513) 556-3050 The ancient Sardinians, also known as Nuragics, traded with many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, especially with the Myceneans and the Cypriots.Sardinians also built many coastal settlements, like Nora and Tharros, and the characteristic tower buildings the island is known Volubilis (Latin pronunciation: [wubls]; Arabic: , romanized: wall; Berber languages: , romanized: wlili) is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II.Before Volubilis, the capital of the Kingdom may have been at Gilda. Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.4 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. Salamis (Ancient Greek: , Greek: , Turkish: Salamis) is an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta.According to tradition, the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, king of the Greek island of Salamis, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city (its "metropolis"), not from a territory-at-large. Sagunto (Valencian: Sagunt) is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community.It belongs to the modern fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre.It is located c. 30 km north of the city of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea.. Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on the island of Sardinia is present in the form of nuraghes and other prehistoric monuments, which dot the land. Originally a 7th-century BC Phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193211), who was born in the city.The 3rd Augustan Legion was The earliest evidence of the site's occupation suggests that the Phoenicians established a trading emporium here in the first millennium BC. The site is open every day and the entrance fee is 5. Faculty organize or participate in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Pylos, Knossos, and Isthmia, and the Athenian Agora, in Italy at Pompeii and Tharros in Sardinia, in Turkey at Gordion, and in Israel at Caesarea Maritima. Olbia is the main connection between Sardinia and the Italian peninsula, with an airport (Olbia Costa Smeralda), a passenger port (Olbia-Isola Bianca), and a railway from Olbia railway station to Porto Torres, Golfo Aranci and Cagliari.There is an expressway to Nuoro and Cagliari (SS131) and national roads to Sassari (SS199-E840), Tempio Pausania (SS127) and Palau (SS125). Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.By 1000 BC Greek and Phoenician traders had begun to visit the eastern coast of Spain, establishing small trading
Phoenicia (/ f n , f n i /) was an ancient thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. Beirut has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, and was one of Phoenicia's most prominent city states, making it one of the It was completely abandoned in 1070 and only ruins remain today. The main town of Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750 metres (2,460 ft) above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast. The territory of the Phoenician city-states extended and shrank throughout their history, and they possessed several enclaves such as Arwad and Tell Sukas (modern Syria). The exact founding date of Utica is a matter of controversy. 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