A la recherche des phéniciens. Moyen-âge Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and

Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies

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as well as an interview by Matta with Eduardo Carrasco

A la recherche des phéniciens. Moyen-âge Pan-African Congress of Prehistory andWho are the Phoenicians? An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet? Exceptional traders and navigators who left the Levant (Tyre, Sidon, present day Lebanon) to found Carthage, whose empire would rival the Greek cities of Sicily and Sardinia, until its destruction by Rome? A people practicing a cruel religion with a god demanding the immolation of children, the source of inspiration for Flaubert's Salammb? Why, compared to the