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Tyre

c. 1200-332 BCE · Lebanon

Tyre became a major Phoenician maritime city whose settlers and merchants helped establish communities including Carthage.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Tyre, c. 1200-332 BCE. — AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event. Ancient shoreline and harbor details remain interpretive.

How the setting appeared

Dense island defenses, harbors, temples, houses and workshops faced a mainland settlement until Alexander's causeway altered the coast.

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How people lived

Punic and Phoenician-speaking households relied on sea travel, regional farming and far-reaching kin and trade networks.

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How people worked

Shipbuilding, navigation, purple dye, glass, metalwork and alphabetic administration supported the port.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Melqart and other deities received civic and household worship; later Greek and Roman interpretations should not erase Phoenician terms.

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World-atlas stage: Iron Age networks
Region: West Asia · Lebanon
Languages and scripts: Phoenician; Phoenician alphabet; Punic in western Phoenician communities; Greek in Mediterranean diplomacy and exchange
Important people: Hiram I; Ithobaal I; Alexander III of Macedon
Events and changes: Tyre developed as a major Phoenician island port during the early 1st millennium BCE.; Hiram I ruled Tyre during the 10th century BCE and is associated in later textual traditions with major building and maritime exchange.; Tyrian settlers traditionally founded Carthage in the late 9th or 8th century BCE.; Alexander III captured Tyre after a seven-month siege in 332 BCE, constructing a causeway that permanently changed the coastline.
Evidence confidence: Strong historical and archaeological evidence; ancient shorelines and harbor forms remain partly reconstructed.

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Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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Tyre: record evidence guide

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/299/

whc.unesco.org

CIT-CORE103-PHOENICIANS-PENN

The Phoenicians in Their Homeland

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-phoenicians-in-their-homeland/

Penn Museum

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