The Early History of the Mediterranean Populations, &c., in Their Migrations and Settlements: Illustrated from Autonomous Coins, Gems, Inscriptions, & CTrübner & Company, 1882 - 79 pages |
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... records of extinct languages are preserved on coins , to which a totally different significa- tion has been assigned . Nothing is more certain than that * Palestine Exploration Fund , New Series , iv . , p . 193 , & c . , Khita and ...
... records of extinct languages are preserved on coins , to which a totally different significa- tion has been assigned . Nothing is more certain than that * Palestine Exploration Fund , New Series , iv . , p . 193 , & c . , Khita and ...
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... records . The Bible statements are confirmed that the country was settled and the towns built before the entrance of the Semites , and that the people were not considered by these latter to be of the same race as themselves . We are ...
... records . The Bible statements are confirmed that the country was settled and the towns built before the entrance of the Semites , and that the people were not considered by these latter to be of the same race as themselves . We are ...
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... record barbarous words from the Balkan peninsula . The northern populations have influenced the south , continuously sending down . emigrants to Athens and to the southern peninsula and islands , streams which flow to this day . Even in ...
... record barbarous words from the Balkan peninsula . The northern populations have influenced the south , continuously sending down . emigrants to Athens and to the southern peninsula and islands , streams which flow to this day . Even in ...
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... records of the past . Beyond the Italian border to the north , the coins help us but little for illustrating the extent of the occupation , and we must have recourse to other methods . * In Spain the coins are the tests , which show ...
... records of the past . Beyond the Italian border to the north , the coins help us but little for illustrating the extent of the occupation , and we must have recourse to other methods . * In Spain the coins are the tests , which show ...
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... records of the remote past have been deciphered , and a group of scholars speak of still more recondite Accadian and Hittite monuments ; but the results of all the scholarship that has been devoted to these subjects have been almost ...
... records of the remote past have been deciphered , and a group of scholars speak of still more recondite Accadian and Hittite monuments ; but the results of all the scholarship that has been devoted to these subjects have been almost ...
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