Tyre through the ages
- سنة النشر: 01 Jan 1970.
- عدد مرات التحميل: 502882 مرّة / مرات.
- تم نشره في: الإثنين , 14 ديسمبر 2015م.
وصف الكتاب:
TYR "Metropolis of Phenicia", was in antiquity a flourishing and famous city, endowed with many temples and palaces. It was coveted by its neighbors for its wealth and its purple industry. Herodotus stopped at Tire in the fifth century BC. The priests who made him visit the temple of Melqart, tutelary god of the city, told him that, according to their calculations, Tire was founded twenty-three hundred years before, that is to say in 2750 BC. The archaeological excavations carried out in 1973 confirmed the statements of the priests of Melqart. Tire already existed in the Old Bronze Age (mid-3rd millennium BC). For centuries the conquerors of the Old World tried to destroy Tire, which occupied a strategic and political place of great importance. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, encamped thirteen years before Tire, but without result. Alexander the Great besieged Tire for seven months. He succeeded in taking the city by building an isthmus that connected the island of Tire to the mainland. The Tyrians left little written record. What we know about them comes from the testimonies of their commercial competitors in antiquity or their enemies. Discreet but enterprising, bold navigators and shrewd merchants, unequaled colonizers, the Tyrians were able, by their courage and their competence, to cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic at a time when navigation in unknown seas presented immense dangers. Based on the careful examination of ancient, classical and medieval texts, as well as on the most recent discoveries, this work brings together all the known information about Tire, the famous fortress city built in the middle of the sea.
