History of the Phoenician City of Tyre from the Bronze Age to the Age of Alexander

As someone born and raised in Tyre, which we call Sour in the local language, i appreciate your work so much! Sometimes i walk around the old ruins of Tyre and look at people around walking and not realizing what they are standing next to!

There’s so much history in the near east it almost makes me Tyred…

Nowadays Tyre is a peninsula and not island anymore. As far I understand it was precisely because of the bridge Alexander built. It changes the sediment deposition pattern and expanded the bridge. Fascinating stuff

I’m pretty sure that causeway remains to this day, expanded upon slowly over time, turning the island into a peninsula.

Cy to add to your excellent report The Tyrians refused Alexander’s bid to sacrifice in the main citadel because symbolically that would mean he had true dominion over the city (ancient superstition/tradition ) instead offering him the temple in the old Tyre. It wasn’t exactly Herakles either it was Melkart the supposed Phoenician equivalent. Great video!!

It's insane to me how much ancient writing we have. I want to read it all.

Phoenicia is the old Lebanon. I visited more than 80 countries and Lebanon is one of the top 3 most beautiful countries I ever visited.

I recently was reading Ezekiel and came across the Lord's destruction of, thanks for the docu coverage, just rapping my head around it looking for possible consistency

I was listening to the History of Egypt podcast today, and it was heavily focused on the letters from the governor of the city of Byblos, Rib-Hadda, who was constantly petitioning the king of Egypt for aid against a rebellious vassal, Abdi-Ashirta & sons, but was (seemingly) often ignored. Felt really bad for the guy... Great vid as usual. Byblos in the future I hope? :D

I’ve been looking forward to this. Trying to work out a story involving Agenor and his rise to kingship following both the myths and history. Not always easy. Keep up the good work, Cy

This is another great video Cy! Excellent work, as per usual. Ancient Levantine cities are always fascinating to learn about. I'd love to see you cover more!

I find it amazing, with how fast Alexander III generally was with his conquests, how long they managed to hold him off and delay his army.

Citium (Citium) is the Latinised form of the Ancient Greek name Kition (Κιτιον), which is itself the Hellenised form of a Phoenician name attested in the forms 𐤊𐤕‎ (kt) and 𐤊𐤕𐤉‎ (kty), among the names of other Cypriot cities, and considered to refer to Kition. The town with the name Kittim in the bible, used by the Hebrews to designate all of Cyprus and even lands further west. Literary evidence suggests an early Phoenician presence also at Kition which was under Tyrian rule at the beginning of the 10th century BC. Some Phoenician merchants who were believed to come from Tyre colonized the area and expanded the political influence of Kition. After c. 850 BC the sanctuaries [at the Kathari site] were rebuilt and reused by the Phoenicians." Ptolemy I conquered Cyprus in 312 BC and killed Poumyathon, the Phoenician king of Kition, and burned the temples. Shortly afterwards the Cypriot city-kingdoms were dissolved and the Phoenician dynasty of Kition was abolished.

Nice! More videos on Phoenicians!

Another awesome video. Would love to see the series continue with Byblos, Arados and eventually Cartaghe!

basically every fertile crescent region city: long history of defending against/losing/bargaining/becoming vassals to egyptians/assyrians/babylonians/persians until: "the city then was hellenised and lost it's identity before it was taken by romans."

this timeline is very intriguing to me, good video

Good stuff! Thank you for putting this together.

Thank you, it's about time. Greatly appreciated

Another great video. Thank you!