Posted on 10/17/2004 7:53:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In "Quest for the Phoenicians," three renowned scientists, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and oceanographer Robert Ballard, geneticist Spencer Wells and archaeologist Paco Giles, search for clues about the Phoenicians in the sea, in the earth and in the blood of their modern-day descendents... Ballard looks at ancient shipwrecks along Skerki Bank off the island of Sicily... Paco Giles excavates a cave at the bottom of the rock of Gibraltar... Spencer Wells collects DNA from a 2,500-year-old Phoenician mummy's tooth, to extract its unique genetic code and compare it with DNA samples collected from men and women from Lebanon to Tunisia.
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
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Secrets of Ancient NavigationCharts have aided mariners ever since the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy created the first world atlas in the second century A.D. The redoubtable Ptolemy even plotted latitude and longitude lines on his atlas's 27 maps, though the farther one got from the known world centered on the Mediterranean, the dangerously less reliable they became. Even before Ptolemy, there were sailing directions -- the Greeks called them periplus or "circumnavigation" -- that were compiled from information collected from sailors far and wide. One of these, The Periplus of the Eritrean Sea, a document written in the first century by a Greek merchant living in Alexandria, described trading routes as far east as India.
by Peter Tyson
NOVA
from 2000
Deep-Sea Clues to an Ancient Culture Discovered[T]he deep wreck appears to be pristine. A striking color video made by the Odyssey team shows a jumble of brown and red amphoras much as they must have lain shortly after the ship, perhaps wrecked by one of the Mediterranean's squalls, settled into the ooze... What lies beneath the amphoras and the muck -- whether the ship's wooden hull, tools, personal items and perhaps coins, which would help pinpoint the date of the sinking -- can only be learned by excavation. The frigidity and low oxygen levels of the deep sea are known to keep many old items remarkably well preserved.
by William J. Broad
October 12, 1998
"Who Were the Phoenicians?" (preview, citations)
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature2/
"Emerging Explorer" Uses DNA to Unlock Our History
Hillary Mayell
for National Geographic News
January 5, 2004
"Spencer Wells thought 'genetics' and forged a unique career that combines his love for history with his passion for biology."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1217_031218_spencerwells.html
Since this is an area of interest to me, I look forward to what Dr. Ballard and team produce.
In the meantime, an interesting link:
http://phoenicia.org/index.shtml
An ancient Phoenician city on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day southern Lebanon. The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century B.C., it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. and was finally destroyed by Muslims in A.D. 1291.
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Here is the National Geographic Link...
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature2/index.html
BUMP for later.
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did anyone see/tape this?
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I'm not merely annoying you B, this is also a bttt for the topic.
The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians,
ed. Megalommatis,
a Book Review
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1156906/posts
The Periplus of the Red Sea,
edition Megalommatis,
a Book Review
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1154520/posts
both of the above topics have been pulled, so they're also non-functional as GGG topics. The first of them exists in the Wayback Machine. To all note also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~Megalommatis/
The requested document does not exist on this server.
some related topics:
Bible Accuracy
Christian Courier: Penpoints | Monday, October 14, 2002 | Wayne Jackson
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Eusebius' Onomasticon: Geographical Knowledge in Byzantine Palestine
Palestine Exploration Fund | 17 March, 2004, Last modified 30 April, 2004
Joan E. Taylor and Rupert L. Chapman
Posted on 01/01/2005 1:36:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Oh I wasn't offended a bit. I can see you pinged the rest of the gang before you found out I had become a Freeper.
hmm... are you on the GGG list? I don't see your name... ;')
I'm only on it if you put me there. That's not your list, is it?
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