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Tyre

Tyre is a city on the coast of present-day southern Lebanon and an important ancient Phoenician center

The restored Roman triumphal arch at Al Bass in Tyre, Lebanon, with aqueduct remains on its right. The arch dates to the second century CE. This photograph, taken on 19 November 2019, shows a later phase in the Phoenician city’s history
The restored Roman triumphal arch at Al Bass in Tyre, Lebanon, with aqueduct remains on its right. The arch dates to the second century CE. This photograph, taken on 19 November 2019, shows a later phase in the Phoenician city’s historyRomanDeckert / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SALicense · Related reference · Image source

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Tyre is a city on the coast of present-day southern Lebanon and an important ancient Phoenician center. [1]

Its ruler Abi-milkuAbi-milkuAbi-milku was a fourteenth-century BCE ruler of Tyre, known from letters to Egypt’s kingGlossary · Click to read the explanation’s letters appear in the fourteenth-century BCE AmarnaAmarna / AkhetatenSite of Akhenaten’s capital in Middle Egypt; boundary stelae record successive proclamations and reaffirmation.Glossary · Click to read the explanation archive, illuminating contacts between Egypt and the LevantThe LevantThe Levant is a regional name for lands along the eastern MediterraneanGlossary · Click to read the explanation. [2]

References and notes

  1. UNESCO World Heritage Centre, identity and context: Tyre. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑
  2. Metropolitan Museum, Abi-milku’s letter to Egypt’s king, 24.2.12, about 1347–1330 BCE. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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