★ UNESCO
World Heritage ◈ hidden gem
World Heritage ◈ hidden gem
📷 Soly Moses · Pexels
Where in the world
Lebanon
The site
On the Lebanese coast stands Byblos, a Phoenician harbor town whose layers of settlement reach back some ten thousand years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth. Walk its ruins and you tread through Canaanite, Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and later worlds stacked one atop another. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is where urban life itself took root in the third millennium BCE.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Phoenician-Punic
- types
- Village · City
- built
- 8,000 BCE
- occupied
- 8,000 BCE — 100 CE
- country
- Lebanon
- elevation
- 10 m above sea level
See it in 3D
Notable finds
Renowned pieces unearthed at Byblos — and where they are today
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Byblos
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Philo of Byblosborn hereGreek author (c. 64 – 141)
