(1) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(2) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
(3) Carthage, a former Phoenician city-state in present-day Tunis, had an empire extending over most of the north African coast as well as the southern tip of Iberia.
(4) Sirte, built near the site of the ancient Phoenician city of Macomedes-Euphranta, is one of Gaddafi's key military hubs.
(5) The prehistoric, ancient Phoenician, Greek and Roman art from the National Museum in Tripoli is superb.
(6) Byblos, a once groovy Mediterranean resort in Lebanon, is possibly the first Phoenician city, founded in 7000BC – not as old as Jericho, maybe, but at least it can claim continuous habitation since 5,000 BC.
(7) The date palm's Latin name, Phoenix dactylifera , refers to the sea-faring Phoenicians who spread its cultivation.
(8) The monument has been variously attributed to Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians and the Jews.
(9) This haplotype is quite uncommon in Europeans and may reflect gene flow from Eastern populations (Phoenicians?)
Punic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.
(a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quinn and her colleagues, a group of Punic archaeologists and historians from Italy and the Netherlands, who publish their findings in the journal Antiquity – where the argument has been rumbling on for several years – completely reject the latter theory.
(2) Hannibal, son of general Hamilcar who led troops in the first Punic war, gave Carthage its most glorious hour.
(3) So ended the second Punic war, with Rome the victor.