The Phoenicians in History and Legend
The author has been a university professor for over twenty years in the United States. In his early youth he was fortunate to live abroad, frequently visiting the countries bordering southern Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. He has also traveled widely in the rest of the world. With this background, years later he began to work on the present book as a result of fortuitous encounters with people whom he had met all over these areas. An avid reader, he has acquired a broad knowledge of the historical civilizations that shaped Western culture. Further, he has come to realize the existence of much older, forgotten and mostly ignored pre-historical people who had been at the root of what was inherited by the West through the predominant influence of the Greco-Roman civilization. This book reflects his belief that multiple events that occurred in the remote past paved the way for our civilization to develop to the point that we enjoy today.