The site

Tyre is an ancient Phoenician city on the Lebanese coast of the Mediterranean, occupied across an extraordinary span from about 2750 BCE into the 13th century CE. Long one of the foremost harbors of the Phoenician-Punic world, it fused maritime trade with deep-rooted urban life. Few cities on this shore claim so unbroken a stretch of occupation, nearly four thousand years of Mediterranean history layered on a single site.

Field notes

civilizations

Phoenician-Punic

types

City

built

2,750 BCE

occupied

2,750 BCE — 1,291 CE

country

Lebanon

elevation

10 m above sea level