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    Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 13:13
Big smileWhy did Alexander never attack Carthage?Earth had shifted suddenly and Carthage came there after
His death?Before Alexander nobody attacked Rome&Carthage.Why?No Aliens please even if ancestors of those here on Balkans,Romans=Eastern&Western,insist on it as possible solution.According mental state of their mind:Hmmmm...
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Thats a good example yet Carthage's religion differed so did their culture and alot of customs.
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Posts: 4734 		  Quote Don Quixote Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 13:02
I read somewhere that  the similarity between the Catragenian and the Phoenician cultures was the same as between the American and and British ones.
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Posts: 541 		  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 12:10
No not really. The Phoenecians were primarily in the cities of Sidon Byblos and Tyre. Tyre founded Carthage and Babylon and the Assyrians were the nominal overlords of Phoenecia at any given time.
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But they did share the same ancestors. Israel's conquest of Canaan might explain why so many Semite refugees fled by sea and founded a new colony in Africa
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Posts: 541 		  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Aug-2012 at 19:19
There is a distinct culture distinctiveness between Carthaginians and Phoenecians, they aren't the same,
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Posts: 7940 		  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Aug-2012 at 19:10
So Carthaginians weren't descended from Phoenicians? Who exactly were their ancestors?
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Posts: 541 		  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Aug-2012 at 19:30
The Phoenecians invented the purple dye made from murex shells not Carthaginians. Several Punic steles and tombs have been found, they had their own unique brand of art mixed with the Greek form. Moloch was far from the only god worshiped as many were.
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Carthaginian glass head from 400 BC
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Posts: 7940 		  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-May-2012 at 20:10
They also invented purple dye the Caesars craved. This came from a shellfish
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The Carthaginians were Semites who settled in North Africa. They worshipped Molech and made very fine glass beads
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You asked for "some vague remnant of its survival in modern day culture."

Then, voila! You have found it! It survives in our view of history!

OK, well maybe there is still some child killing, but that is hardly relevant, is it?

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Posts: 3 		  Quote Carthago Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-May-2010 at 12:28
I have just started to read Carthage Must be Destroyed: The rise and fall of an ancient civilization by Richard Miles and it is already clear ( he states as much) that most of what we know is filtered & coloured by how the Romans wished to show Carthage as their bogey man.
 
Sadly after the fall of Carthage all the surviving writings from the libraries were given to the Numidian princes who were Roman allies at the time, and have subsequently been lost.
 
As I said I have only just started the book, so maybe something akin to your query may be answered within. I cannot yet say but I may be worth you picking up a copy anyway. 
 
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I am working on a paper about the evolution and basis of Carthaginian Culture with the main goal of finding some vague remnant of its survival in modern day culture. I have a lot of research already but I was wondering if you guys had any literature or links that would aid me in my paper.
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