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Product Description Histories of Phoenicia or of the Phoenicians were vritten towards the middle of the present century by Clovers and Kem-ick. The elaborate work of the former writer collected into five moderate-sized volumes all the notices that classical antiquity had preserved of the Eeligion, History, Commerce, A rt,:c., of this celebrated and interesting nation. Kenrick, making a free use of the stores of knowledge thus accumulated, added to them much information derived from modern research, and was content to give to the world in a single volume of small size, -verv scantilv illustrated, the ascertained results of criticism and inquiry on the subject of the PI iodiiicians up to his own day. Forty-four years have ince elapsed; and in the course of them large additions have been made to certain branches of the inquir% while others have remained very much as thev were before. Travellers, like Kobinson, Wal)cile, Tristram, Kenan, and Lortet, have thrown great Die Phonizier und ds 1H istory and A ntiqititiea of phanizische A lterthum by F. C. P hoenicia, by John Kenrick, Movers, in five volumes, Berlin, L ondon, 1855. 1841-1850. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org About the Author George Rawlinson (1812-1902), English scholar and historian, is best known for his translations of the "History of Herodotus, The Origin of Nations, Manual of Ancient History, The History of Ancient