Word: phoenician
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...Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra" will be the subject for Wednesday, March 18, when Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, will lecture. Dows Dunham '14, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will deliver the last lecture on Friday, March 20 on "The Unplundered Tomb of an Egyptian Queen (Hetepheres...
Wednesday, March 18--"The Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra." Professor Robert H. Pfeiffer, of Harvard University...
...first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt. Sinai and with Phoenician scripts found in Syria. Orientalists were excited at this unexpected bridging of an ancient linguistic...
...Greek colony, F. A. Schaeffer and Georges Chenet, French archeologists, found the unwieldy schoolbooks of a forgotten university. The books were clay tablets 4,000 years old covered with language lessons in four tongues: Assyro-Chaldean cuneiforms, the language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian & Babylonian cultures. There ancient scholars exchanged languages, ideas...
Scholar Price says he first hunted up ancient alphabets, "including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Babylonian cuneiform, Semitic Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew and Roman and sat down to draw far-fetched conclusions...