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  2. Muricidae - Wikipedia

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    Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species , the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda .

  3. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician alphabet [b] is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was the first alphabet ever developed, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.

  4. Tekhelet - Wikipedia

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    Tekhelet (Hebrew: תְּכֵלֶת ‎ təḵēleṯ; alternative spellings include tekheleth, t'chelet, techelet, and techeiles) is a highly valued dye described as either "sky blue" (Hebrew: תּכוֹל, romanized: tāk̲ol, lit.

  5. History of Tyre, Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Aerial photo of Tyre, c. 1918. Tyre, in Lebanon, is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for over 4,700 years.Situated in the Levant on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyre became the leading city of the Phoenician civilization in 969 BC with the reign of the Tyrian king Hiram I, the city of Tyre alongside its Phoenician homeland are also credited with ...

  6. Tyrian (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter.It was developed chiefly as a homage to the works of Compile, particularly their Zanac series.. The player controls a space ship fitted with different weapons (front and back, linked to the same button, and up to two external pods with their own buttons) and other equipment.

  7. History of Málaga - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician colonial period lasted approximately from 770 to 550 BC. [9] Economic development in the colony at Cerro del Villar, later to become Malaka, included industries for the production of sea salt and of purple dye. [10] The Phoenicians had discovered in the waters off the coast murex sea snails, the source of the famed Tyrian purple ...

  8. Phoenix (son of Agenor) - Wikipedia

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    "Herakles the philosopher, called the Tyrian, lived in the reign of King Phoenix. It was he who discovered the purple-shell. He was wandering on the coastal part of Tyre city when he saw a shepherd dog eating the so-called purple-shell, which is a small maritime species like a sea snail.

  9. Dido - Wikipedia

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    Dido (/ ˈ d aɪ d oʊ / DY-doh; Ancient Greek: Διδώ Greek pronunciation: [diː.dɔ̌ː], Latin pronunciation:), also known as Elissa (/ ə ˈ l ɪ s ə / ə-LISS-ə, Ἔλισσα), [1] was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia), in 814 BC.

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