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Show 20 A DESEl,ET NEWS, Friday, June 27, 1969 Phoenician -- New World Studies To Be Published By Y. Prof PROVO After nearly five months of tracing the remains of Phoenician civilization in tlie .Mediterranean, a BYU professor is settling down to write a book for a Salt Lake publisher. Dr. Ross T. Christensen has been spending his sabbatical leave building up background information and evidence so he can contribute to what he calls about the lively controversy the Phoenicians and their contacts with the New World. The Phoenicians established in Cadiz in southwest a colony Sorry, no phone or mail orders, no lay 2 K biur in Spain in approximately 1100 B.C. and Dr. Christensen believes that it is just possible that Phoenician mariners may have visited America by accident. Evidence of Phoenician writing has been found on the eastern coasts of both North and South America, but in the past they have been considered to be fakes. How ever, some recent opinions consider that the Paraiba Inscription, found on tl eastern tip of Brazil during the last century, could be a genuine example of Phoenician writing. describes The inscription the trading voyage of ten sons of Caships containing naan from Sidon who set sail aways or c.o.d.'s. We reserve the right to limit quantities . . . park free with 3.00 minimum purchase, 6 entrances directly into store . . . extra hours 20c each. of standard or oversize stalls ... our parking plaza, your choice i r from the port of in an into the Red Sea attempt to sail around Africa, but one ship was forced to the eastern tip of Brazil by a storm. Ezion-Gebe- |