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The Mythical Land of Punt – Will ‘God’s Land’ Ever Be Found?
... to obtain gold, aromatic resins, African blackwood, ebony, ivory, wild animals and even slaves. In the temple of ... fish: zoologist identified some of them living along the coast of Africa, but also along the Arabian Peninsula. For ... of remarkable discoveries on a stretch of the Red Sea coast which proved that the Egyptian’s applied their ...
aprilholloway - 06/09/2013 - 01:24
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1,800-year-old Headless Greek Statue Found At Turkey’s Metropolis Site
... Excavation Site and its Significance Located on the west coast of Turkey , the Metropolis site is located between the ... Wonders of the Ancient World) and Smyrna (on the Aegean Coast). According to ARTnews , it was first settled in the ... coins, glass, ceramics, figurines, sculptures, and bone, ivory and metal finds. Some of the most important finds ...
Sahir - 30/06/2021 - 01:25
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Looking for Clues on the Hill of the Jackal: The Rich African Kingdom of Mapungubwe
... trade goods to East African ports along the Indian Ocean coast such as Kilwa. Furthermore, gold and ivory, which were luxurious goods, were harvested from the ... found in Mapungubwe. In return for their precious gold and ivory, the merchants of Mapungubwe obtained such foreign ...
dhwty - 14/03/2016 - 02:52
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From Exile to Exploration: The Saga of Erik the Red
... Erik the Red’s expedition. Summer in the Greenland coast circa the year 1000 by Carl Rasmussen. ( Public Domain ... southern tip (Cape Farewell today) and up the western coast. Eventually, they found an area that wasn’t all ice ... riches like seals (which could be used for rope), walrus ivory , and beached whales. These riches made the ...
Robbie Mitchell - 16/03/2024 - 22:01
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Ancient Greek Shipwreck Is Now Protected By Underwater AI Robots
... Location of the 5 underwater AI robot cameras off the coast of Alonnisos in the Aegean Sea ( NOUS ) This Wreck is a ... foreign kingdoms, including wheat, barley, cheese, pork, ivory and glass, they also exported their own products to ...
ashley cowie - 03/08/2020 - 19:00
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Phoenicians: Creating what is now known as the Alphabet
... languages. The Phoenicians lived along the Mediterranean coast in what is now Lebanon. They inhabited a number of ... cloth from Mesopotamia, spices from Arabia, and ivory, gold, and slaves from Africa to destinations ... the Great. Many Phoenicians left the Mediterranean coast for their trading colonies, and Phoenicia people and ...
ancient-origins - 13/10/2016 - 03:46
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Did Pytheas, Ancient Navigator, Geographer and Astronomer Discover Mysterious Thule?
... Hercules, now called Gibraltar, and then up the Atlantic coast. But for at least 200 years the Carthaginians had been ... Britain, gold from Ireland, amber from the Baltics, and ivory from a mysterious region in the north, were being ...
jim willis - 18/05/2018 - 15:34
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People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines
... at Ashod, one of five Philistine capitals along the coast of Canaan; in Cyprus; in the Gaza strip; and in another ... the distinctive bi-chrome ware, iron, bronze, and ivory artifacts, and artificial remains, the Dothans ...
ancient-origins - 26/03/2016 - 04:12
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Ancient Red Sea Port May Have World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery
... at the 2,000-year-old port of Berenice on the Red Sea coast of Egypt a decade ago. Now they say that the evidence ... seen many ships, as the Romans who controlled it traded ivory, fabrics, and other luxury goods with people all over ...
Alicia McDermott - 06/03/2021 - 17:59
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The Vagaries of Trade in Ancient Egypt
... to procure raw materials from distant lands, such as gold, ivory, and incense from the south, and oils, stone, and ... woods, of kohl, of cypress, an abundance of incense, of ivory tusks, of baboons, of apes, and all kinds of precious ... is situated to the south of Egypt, somewhere along the coast of the Red Sea. It has been suggested that the Land of ...
dhwty - 05/06/2020 - 14:10
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Pirate’s Crossed Bones Rise from Ghost Ship – Are They the Remains of Notorious Pirate Samuel Bellamy?
... Clifford discovered a shipwreck 20 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Then, in 1985 he recovered the ship's bell ... or five tons of silver and gold, indigo, Jesuit's bark, ivory and other precious trade goods.” Now, ...
ashley cowie - 12/02/2018 - 13:57
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Meet the 800-Year-Old Golden Rhinoceros that Challenged Apartheid South Africa
... Long distance trade in the region was previously based on ivory and animal skins in return for glass beads, known from ...
ancient-origins - 04/04/2019 - 17:09
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The Misfortune of the Bom Jesus, the Diamond Shipwreck
... near the mouth of the Orange River on Namibia’s southern coast. In 2008, a company geologist working in the mining ... weapons, armour, bronze canons, canon balls, pewter bowls, ivory tusks, and of course gold. The gold was in the form of ...
dhwty - 08/06/2014 - 00:53
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Copious Copper Supplies Made Cyprus a Trading Center 3,500 Years Ago
... Sultan Tekke, but also luxury goods made of gold , silver, ivory and semi-precious gemstones which show that the ...
Nathan Falde - 17/03/2023 - 21:57
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The Periplus Of The Ports Of Ethiopia, The Hidden Empire
... is much older than that, as Axum was a trading center for ivory, gems, incense, spices and gold for many thousands of ...
davidchildress - 16/04/2021 - 12:40
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The Great Mosque of Touba: Spiritual Home of the Mouride Brotherhood
... fundamental to thousands of followers mainly in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mauretania, and Gambia . It is generally accepted that ...
Ed Whelan - 29/05/2019 - 02:04
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A Mammoth-Sized Find: Humans Living in the Arctic 10,000 Years Earlier May Push Back Other Important Migration Dates Too
... In 2012, 11-year-old Evgeniy Solinder was exploring the coast of Yenisei Bay on the Arctic Ocean and found the ... of food, but in terms of important raw materials—tusks, ivory that they desperately needed to manufacture hunting ...
Mark Miller - 15/01/2016 - 21:53
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Ancient Mesopotamia and the Rise of Civilization
... in the fertile crescent, which also includes the Levantine coast, the Iranian-Iraqi modern border, and significant ... figurines , and personal ornamentation such as pierced ivory beads. With extra time on their hands, the culture and ...
Sarah P Young - 14/01/2021 - 23:08
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Statue Reveals Buddhists Likely Mingled with Roman’s In Egypt
... The antiquities ministry reveals that goods such as ivory , textiles, and semi-precious metals passed through the ... unprepossessing ruins, easily missed as you drive up the coast, were the landing point for generations of Indian ...
Sahir - 03/05/2023 - 18:43
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Poseidon’s Wrath: The Scourge of the Sea Peoples
... lapis from north of the Indus valley, gold from Egypt, and ivory from Africa. But wealth breeds envy, which leads to war ...
micki pistorius - 19/04/2024 - 17:42