Homesick Phoenicians Imported Plants, Animals to New Sicilian Island Home 3000 Years Ago - Haaretz

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Homesick Phoenicians Imported Plants, Animals to New Sicilian Island Home 3000 Years Ago Haaretz Analysis of bones on Motya finds that they also brought sheep, goats and dogs, and possibly other animals with them. The dogs look like the breed known as Pharaoh hounds, which the doting modern Maltese have named kelb tal-fenek, or rabbit hound.