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Gypsum wall panel relief: carved and showing tribute bearers to Ashurnasirpal II. One has a NW Syrian type turban and raises clenched hands in token of submission; the second may be Phoenician and brings a pair of apes. There is an inscription written in cuneiform script.

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Beautiful Roman road built over 2,000 years ago. This is just a section of the Appian way which, in it’s entirety, spanned 563 kilometers.

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The final phase of the Siege of Carthage (149–146 BC), commanded by Scipio Aemilianus, when the Roman legions broke inside the great city and fought against the Phoenician defenders on elephants! It's one of the few ancient city battles to be recorded in detail by an eye witness!

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Samus Aran by MorganHowell

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of Rome's best generals who fought during the Punic Wars. He is known for slaying a king in battle and capturing Syracuse. When he died, Hannibal went to see the body, gave him a proper funeral, and sent the ashes back to his son in a silver urn with a golden wreath.

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In Greek mythology, Cadmus was a Phoenician prince from Tyre who founded and was first king of Thebes, Greece. He was the first hero and greatest slayer of monsters before Heracles. He was credited with spreading the Phoenician alphabet to Greece. Thebes was later destroyed by Alexander in 335 BC.

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In this concept art of Kraid for Super Metroid, Samus is indicated as 1.9 meters tall, or 6 feet 2.803 inches with the suit. Kraid is huge!

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The word gorilla comes from the history of Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian admiral from the 6th c. BC who explored the west African coast. He encountered 'savage, hairy people' and called them gorillai. Skins of gorilla women, brought back by Hanno were kept at Carthage until its destruction.

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German academics and soldiers studied the Second Punic War in great, sometimes obsessive detail, and Von Schlieffen, the architect of the offensive which was launched into France in 1914, consciously attempted to reproduce the genius of Hannibal's battle tactics on a vast scale.

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A widely accepted legend is that Scipio Aemilianus ordered Carthage to be sacked, forced its surviving inhabitants into slavery, plowed it over and sowed it with salt. However, no ancient sources exist documenting the salting itself. The element of salting is therefore probably a later invention.

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Modern reconstruction of Punic Carthage. The circular harbor at the front is the Cothon, the military port of Carthage, where all the her warships were anchored. The Byrsa hill in the city was the reported site of the Temple of Eshmun (the healing god), at the top of a stairway of sixty steps.

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Map of Rome and Carthage at the start of the Second Punic War in 218 BC. After seventeen years, Rome manages to win the war, annexing Hispania and most of North Africa. The end of the Punic Wars signify the Rise of Rome, forever changing the future of European history for millennia.

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Map of Roman Empire at its farthest extent in 117 AD. For centuries, the Phoenicians dominated the western Mediterranean in terms of trade and naval power. After the First Punic War, however, Rome superseded Carthage in naval dominance and renamed the Mediterranean Sea “Mare Nostrum,” or “Our Sea.”

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Magon Barca (𐤌𐤂‬𐤍 𐤁𐤓𐤒), brother of Hannibal and a key commander in the Second Punic War, founded the port city of Mahon in the Balearics, which still bears his name. The local egg sauce that is now consumed all over the world is called mayonnaise after the city.

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Canaan (Phoenician 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – Kenaʿan) was a Semitic-speaking culture in the Levant that included Phoenicia, Philistia and Israel. The Phoenicians were descended from Canaanites. In the 5th century AD, St. Augustine says the rural people of North Africa retained the Punic self-designation Chanani.

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The Battle of Cannae (216 BC) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage. Hannibal surrounded and annihilated a larger Roman army. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

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Samus with a more boxy figure and slimmer solders. Concept art from Corruption!

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Maronites at the Fountain, by Emile Vernet-Lecomte, 1863, oil on canvas

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Tomb of Masinissa, first king of Numidia. He was initially Carthage’s ally, but switched sides and joined Scipio at Zama. He lived the rest of his life terrorizing Carthaginian territory, provoking them to fight back and causing Rome to destroy the city. Today, he is revered in Algeria and Tunisia.

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Carthaginian gilded bronze cuirass and backrest found near the ancient Phoenician port-town of Salaktalatin in modern Tunisia, dated to c. 250 BC. It features the helmeted face of Anat (𐤏𐤍𐤕), the Canaanite goddess of war, equivalent to Athena or Minerva.

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Ancient Phoenician wall built to protect against tidal waves in Batroun, Lebanon, originally founded by the Phoenicians in the 14th century BC. Many Lebanese continue to identify as descendants of the Phoenician Canaanites, which DNA studies seem to confirm.

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Yam ‎(𐤅𐤌), the god of the sea and rivers, symbolizes the violent and uncompromising side of nature as experienced by the Canaanite-Phoenicians through their voyages on the seas. His Greek and Roman equivalents were Poseidon and Neptune.

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Modern bronze bust of Hannibal (𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋) that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, which he placed in his personal office. Napoleon regarded Hannibal as a gifted strategist. He called him “the most audacious of all, probably the most stunning, so hardy, so sure, so great in all things.”

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One of the most satisfying feelings in the game

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The Sacred Band of Carthage were an elite heavy infantry unit consisting of 2,500 men. Drawn from the wealthiest families of Carthage, they were inferior to none among them as to birth, wealth, or reputation and famed by the splendor of their arms, and the slowness and order of their march.

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Bcharri during Spring.

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I drew one of my favorite leaders from history, Alexandros ho Megas, the great king of Greece and Asia!

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Hi-Resolution rendition of Samus from SM

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The symbol of Tanit, known to the Romans as Caelestis, on a mosaic floor in modern-day Tunisia. She was worshiped in both Punic and Roman Carthage as the chief heavenly goddess of war, a virginal mother goddess and nurse, and a symbol of fertility.

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Hannibal by Aleksander Karcz. Hannibal’s visage here is based off his ancient bust. He lost an eye during a minor engagement after crossing the Apennines in Italy, hence the eyepatch. However, some historians claim he caught an eye infection while crossing the Arno marshes shortly after.

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Beautiful rendition of all 24 letters of the Phoenician alphabet. The images represent what the letters mean or stand for! More info in comments! Art by Lunaria Gold.

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RIP Super Metroid’s style suit; it doesn’t seem like it’ll be reused again. It was and always will be my favorite. 🧡

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Roman Empire with provinces in 210 AD, created by Phoenician-Roman emperor Septimius Severus. The capital of the Provincia Syria Phoenice was Tyre in modern day Lebanon.

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Hamilcar (275–228 BC) stood out far above the Carthaginians in military and diplomatic skill and strength of patriotism; in these qualities he was surpassed only by Hannibal. As a man, Cato placed Hamilcar a cut above most leaders, including most Romans. Livy referred to him as the great Hamilcar.

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What Light Suit Samus would probably look like if it were in Smash Ultimate.

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Phoenician autonomy in the western Mediterranean ended after the destruction of Carthage by Rome in 146 BC, but ended in the Phoenician homeland in 332 BC by Alexander the Great.

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Sexi (𐤑‬𐤊‬𐤑‬) was an important Phoenician colony (c. 800 BC) on Spain's SE coast. It had a large fish salting and curing industry that was a major supplier of Greece and Rome. They also supplied a prized fish paste called garum made from the intestines of small fish by a process of fermentation.

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Hanno (𐤇‬𐤍‬𐤀‬‬) was a Carthaginian admiral (6th c. BC) best known for his naval exploration of the western coast of Africa. His logbook contains a description of a fully active volcano and the first known report about gorillas! It precedes the Portuguese report on the region by 2,000 years.

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Pythagoras (570–495 BC) was a philosopher and mathematician with Phoenician and Greek heritage. His work was well known in antiquity, influencing such people as Plato and Aristotle, and through them Western Philosophy. He was allegedly the first man to call himself a philosopher (lover of wisdom).

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Bird's eye view of Roman Carthage at its height. It was founded by Julius Caesar in 49 BC over the same land as the original Phoenician city. By the third century it developed into one of the largest cities of the Roman Empire, often rivaling the city of Rome in wealth and influence!

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Hannibal featured on Leaders of Men, a series of cigarette cards by Ogden (1924). The artistic interpretation is based off a marble bust of Hannibal found at the ancient city-state of Capua, Italy. Once on display in the Naples National Museum, it is now in the Quirinale Palace in Rome.

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The destruction of Carthage, 146 BC was commanded by Scipio Aemilianus, adoptive grandson of Scipio Africanus, the famed general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama. Under the orders of the Senate, Aemilianus utterly destroyed and plowed the city of Carthage so that it would never rise again

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Phoenicia encompassed most of modern-day Lebanon, as well as western Syria and northern Israel. The cities of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and Arwad were the most influential and powerful. Lebanon comes from Phoenician root LBN (𐤋𐤁𐤍) meaning white, referencing its year-round snow-capped mountains!

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The Holy Trinity of the SNES! Which one is your favorite out of these three?

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The Punic language lasted till the 5th century. St. Augustine once said, There was a great deal of virtue and wisdom in the Punic books. When Maximus, a pagan grammarian, wrote him a hostile letter mocking Punic names, Augustine rebukes him and describes the Punic language as our own tongue.

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Phoenician within the Semitic Languages.

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Utica (𐤏𐤕𐤒) was the first city founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa (c. 1100 BC). It was located 40 km northwest of Carthage and was one of the most influential and powerful Phoenician colonies. Hamilcar Barca swiftly liberated the city during an intense siege by a violent mercenary revolt.

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Hannibal Crossing the Alps, illustration by Heinrich Leutemannin in 1886.

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Homer's attitude toward the Phoenicians is at variance in his two epics. In the Iliad their reputation clear: they are craftsmen, workers in precious metal, and their women weave elaborate, prized garments. In the Odyssey, although still renowned, they are described as skilled in deception.

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Hanno (𐤇‬𐤍‬𐤀‬‬) was a Carthaginian admiral (6th c. BC) best known for his naval exploration of the western coast of Africa. His logbook contains a description of a fully active volcano and the first known report about gorillas! It precedes the Portuguese report on the region by 2,000 years.

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A marble bust of Hannibal (𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋) originally found at the ancient city-state of Capua in Italy, on display in the Quirinal Palace in Rome!

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The land of Iberia, or Spania as known to the Phoenicians, was originally populated by Iberians, Celts, and Basques. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded or refounded many powerful colonies there, including Cadiz, Cartagena, and Ibiza in Spain, and Lisbon in Portugal.

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The Temple of Bacchus and the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon. The Temple of Bacchus (left) is one of the largest and best-preserved Roman temple ruins! The Temple of Jupiter (right) replaced an older Temple of Baal, and was the largest temple dedicated to Jupiter in the entire Roman Empire!

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Official Super Metroid artwork from Nintendo. It's my favorite design of Samus. I love the dark red color of her helmet, the blue tint of her visor, and the bulkiness of her suit.

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Marble funerary stele (c. 350–300 BC) found in the grove of the Academy, Athens. Bears a Phoenician inscription: “To Benhodesh, son of ʿAbdmilqart, son of ʿAbdshamash, son of TGNS, men of Kition” and a Greek inscription: ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΟΣ ΚΙΤΙΕΥ / NOUMENIOS KITIEU.

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The Temple of Solomon (c. 1000–586 BC) dedicated to Yahweh in Jerusalem was built according to Phoenician design, and its description is considered the best description of what a Phoenician temple looked like!

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Septimius Severus, one of many Roman emperors of Phoenician heritage. He spoke Phoenician fluently, but also Latin with a slight accent. His sister spoke Latin so badly that she embarrassed him enough to send her back home. During his reign one third of the Senate was of Phoenician descent.

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Bombs can be used to propel Samus into the air both vertically and horizontally. While slow, this technique is so robust that there are nearly no limitations to its explorative properties.

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Magon Barca (𐤌𐤂‬𐤍 𐤁𐤓𐤒), brother of Hannibal and a key commander in the Second Punic War, founded the port city of Mahon in the Balearics, which still bears his name. The local egg sauce that is now consumed all over the world is called mayonnaise after the city.

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This promotional Super Metroid cardboard standee

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An ancient tree from the Cedars of God located in Bsharri, Lebanon, one of the last vestiges of the extensive forests that thrived during the Phoenician era. The mountains of Lebanon were once shaded by thick cedar forests, a resource the Phoenicians used to build their ships!

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Jbeil, Lebanon (Gebal 𐤂𐤁𐤋), founded c. 8000 BC, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Jbeil bears outstanding witness to the beginnings of the Phoenician civilization. In ancient times, Gebal had a reputation of being the oldest city in the world, founded by Cronus.

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Marble statue of Septimius Severus, Roman emperor from 192-211 BC, born in Leptis to Phoenician heritage. He spoke Greek and Latin with an accent, since his first language was Phoenician.

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How awesome the foreign advisor web was in Civ IV.

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During the First Punic War, Roman consul Fundanius suffered severe casualties and requested a truce to bury his dead. Hamilcar granted it, saying, I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead. When Hamilcar requested a similar truce to bury his dead before, the consul refused.

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Roman Empire at its greatest extent under the emperor Trajan (117 AD), with Senatorial provinces, Imperial provinces and client states displayed!

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'Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women' (4th c. BC) found in the Royal Necropolis of Sidon, Lebanon. It's one of oldest sarcophagi which initiated the use of columns. It was likely the tomb of Abdashtart I, king of Sidon who revolted against the Persian empire and was proxenos of the People of Athens.

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The destruction of Carthage, 146 BC was commanded by Scipio Aemilianus, adoptive grandson of Scipio Africanus, the famed general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama. Under the orders of the Senate, Aemilianus utterly destroyed and plowed the city of Carthage so that it would never rise again

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Almadraba tuna fishing is an elaborate and age-old Phoenician technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna. The practice has been used for over 3,000 years on the coast of Cadiz, Spain. It is also carried out in Italy, Morocco, and Portugal!

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Road in Italy built over 2,000 years ago by the Romans is still in use today. It’s part of the famous Appian Way!

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One of many Phoenician statuettes (c. 1800 BC) found at the Temple of the Obelisks in Byblos, Lebanon. They represent Ba'al (𐤁𐤏𐤋), the Phoenician god of fertility, lightning and war. He was worshiped by the Phoenicians for millennia and was usually equated to Zeus and Jupiter.

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Such a clever shirt design. JUMP GOOD. Aku: YOU CAN FLY?!? Jack: No, Jump Good.

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Ancient Phoenician coin of Melqart (Herakles) from Cadiz, Spain. First settled by Phoenicians from Tyre as Gadir around 1104 BC, Cadiz is one of, if not the oldest continuously inhabited city in Western Europe!

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The Phoenicians, pressured by eastern enemies and bounded by the snowy peaks of Mount Lebanon, pursued sailing and trade. It is said that they called the Mediterranean Sea the “Great Sea” or “The Sea.”

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Topographical map of Lebanon detailing its mountains stretching across the entire country adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea!

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Melqart (𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕) on a silver coin with the features of Hamilcar Barca (c. 232 BC). Melqart was the tutelary god of Tyre and considered to be the progenitor of the Tyrian royal family. The Barcids were from the landed aristocracy of Carthage and established themselves descendants of Melqart!

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Crateria of Zebes 💚 by Startaft33

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The Phoenicians created the 1st alphabet in history, and it is the ancestor to many of the alphabets we use today! Outside the Canaanite sphere, it was spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean, where it was adopted and modified by many other cultures in Western Asia, Africa and Europe

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Purple became associated with royalty because of how hard and expensive it was to make. The Phoenicians were the first to make Tyrian Purple. 12,000 snails yielded only 1.4g of dye! At one point, only the Roman Emperor was allowed to don the color!

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Alcatraz Escape

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The Phoenicians created the 1st alphabet in history, and it is the ancestor to many of the alphabets we use today! Outside the Canaanite sphere, it was spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean, where it was adopted and modified by many other cultures in Western Asia, Africa and Europe

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Official Super Metroid concept artwork of Samus entering a Save Point

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I love escape sequences in Metroid games. They're so exciting and exhilarating, and they get your heart beat up. So much is on the line. The best bounty hunter can't lose her life in an explosion.

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Map of the Phoenician Civilization in 331 BC, a year after Tyre was sacked by Alexander, thus making Sidon the dominant city in the homeland, and Carthage the dominant city in the Western Mediterranean. The Punic Wars did not begin until another 67 years.

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The way he just lifts him

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I was playing Civ IV and I forgot how badass Hannibal was! The glorious Carthaginian people welcome the cute little civilization of Rome! This was true before the Punic Wars. 😆

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[OC] The land of Iberia, or Spania as known to the Phoenicians, was originally populated by Iberians, Celts, and Basques. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded or refounded many powerful colonies there, including Cadiz, Cartagena, and Ibiza in Spain, and Lisbon in Portugal.

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How's this for a wallpaper?

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Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC was one of the major events of the 2nd Punic War, and is one of the most celebrated military achievements! Bypassing Roman land garrisons and naval dominance, Hannibal led 90K men and 37 elephants over the Alps to take the war directly to the Roman Republic!

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In Greek mythology, Cadmus was a Phoenician prince from Tyre who founded and was first king of Thebes, Greece. He was the first hero and greatest slayer of monsters before Heracles. He was credited with spreading the Phoenician alphabet to Greece. Thebes was later destroyed by Alexander in 335 BC.

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I wish Nintendo made tees of their own retro art. This one is badass!

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We all know who is going to win this.

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The echoes of Samus' shinespark can instantly destroy most creatures

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Byzantine Emperor Justinian I clad in Tyrian purple, contemporary 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Tyrian purple was used by the ancient Phoenicians as early as 1570 BC, and ended abruptly in the Byzantine court with the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

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[Detail] The two Blamphs in the back look exhausted after making a single Plumbus.

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Alexander the Great in the Alexander Sarcophagus, found in Sidon, Lebanon. Illustration showing Alexander in the battle of Issus (333 BC). The work is remarkably well preserved and has been celebrated for its high aesthetic achievement.

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The Dragon of the West

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There's no evidence Carthage sent money to Hannibal before his victory at Cannae in 216 BC. They gave him little support, and so Hannibal had to rely on his own efforts to maintain his army. His troops were loyal during the entire 15-year campaign, which is a testament to his military capabilities.

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Official Super Metroid cover artwork from Nintendo of UK. It's my favorite Metroid cover. I love Samus' badass pose here as she's firing her beam on Ridley. We also get a taste of how Zebes looked like during Samus' second landing.

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Thoughts on the Puma Thunder Spectra?

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Thoughts on the Nike React Element 55?

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This green standing Space Pirate is unique to Crateria. Initially, he can only be killed by Missiles and even Bombs if you're clever enough to figure that out.

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On this day, 2 August 216 BC, Hannibal annihilated the largest Roman army ever deployed in a masterful pincer movement. It's regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history. Cannae has acquired a mythic quality and is often used as an example of the perfect defeat of an enemy army

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The Phoenicians were the first to have a significant impact on the history of wine. Along with their alphabet, they spread wine-making knowledge to areas such as Greece, Iberia, North Africa, and Italy. They also spread amphorae, known as the Canaanite jar, for the transport and storage of wine.

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Aerial view of Tyre (𐤑𐤓 Sur) from an airplane in 1934.

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Abdalonymus hunting lions on the Alexander Sarcophagus. He was made king of Sidon by Alexander the Great and given the palace and private estate of Azemilcus, king of Tyre. Discovered in Sidon, Lebanon in 1887, the sarcophagus is considered the outstanding holding of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

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Melqart (𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕) on a silver coin with the features of Hamilcar Barca (c. 232 BC). Melqart was the tutelary god of Tyre and considered to be the progenitor of the Tyrian royal family. The Barcids were from the landed aristocracy of Carthage and established themselves descendants of Melqart!

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Samus vs the Smash Brothers. Art by Mike Lancette.

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The land of Iberia, or Spania as known to the Phoenicians, was originally populated by Iberians, Celts, and Basques. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded or refounded many powerful colonies there, including Cadiz, Cartagena, and Ibiza in Spain, and Lisbon in Portugal.

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This European Goldfinch taking a bath in comforting owner's hands

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A naval action during the Siege of Tyre (332 BC), where Tyre's Phoenician brethren from Byblos, Sidon, Arwad dispatched their fleet against her, supporting Alexander the Great's attack on the city. The women, children evacuated to Carthage, which had then become the last autonomous Phoenician city.

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Anyone else remember these pesky enemies in A Link to The Past?

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A depiction of Hannibal crossing the Alps by Heinrich Leutemann, 1866. Hannibal – Phoenician name meaning “grace of Baal” – crossed the Alps in late October 216 BC with 37 elephants in order to take the war directly to the Roman Republic.

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Septimius Severus, one of many Roman emperors of Phoenician heritage. He spoke Phoenician fluently, but also Latin with a slight accent. His sister spoke Latin so badly that she embarrassed him enough to send her back home. During his reign one third of the Senate was of Phoenician descent.

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Retro Samus meets Modern Samus

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