Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Tyre used to have two harbors: the Sidonian in the north, which is nowadays a bit smaller than it…
Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. The temple of Melqart was one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient world.
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Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Objects from Tyre can be found in several museums, including the National Museum in Beirut, the Louvre in Paris…
Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History
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Ur: ancient Sumerian city, modern Tell el-Muqayyar.
Ur's ziggurat, partly rebuilt
Prehistory
Ur dates back to the Neolithic Ubaid Period, prior to c.3800…
Uthina (Greek Οὔθινα): Numidian-Roman city in Africa, modern Oudna.Uthina
Uthina, Inscription by soldiers of XIII Gemina
Along the river Miliane, upstream from…