Word: punic
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...beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome in 146 B. C. The beads resembled Carthaginian work of the Fourth Century B. C. At the skeleton's ostrich-plumed head rested a six-inch statuet?a naked female with hips exaggerated...
...scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded extensively...
...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...
...seen the Punic triremes walk...
...Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage-home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar-and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba-the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients...