The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century bc, it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 bc and was destroyed by a Mameluke army in ad 1291....
The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century bc, it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 bc and was destroyed by a Mameluke army in ad 1291....
Tyre was founded on an offshore island. Alexander the Great constructed a causeway during his siege of the city, and the island became a peninsula. Excavations have been carried out at two sites in Tyre: al-Mina site (or City site) on the southern part of the former island, and al-Bas...
Stormed by Alexander the Great. Its Temple. Principal city of Phenicia. By "the strong city Tyre," mentioned in Josh. xix. 29 and II Sam. xxiv. 7 as marking the frontier of Israel (Asher), is evidently meant not the main city, but an outpost in the mountains protecting the road to...
Morhange (2008), Alexander the Great's tombolos at Tyre and Alexandria, eastern Mediterranean, Geomorphology, 100(3-4), 377-400.Marriner N., Goiran J. P., Morhange C. (2008), Alexander the Great's tombolos at Tyre and Alexandria, eastern Mediterranean, Geomorphology, 100, 377-400....
present-day southern Lebanon. The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century BC, it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and was destroyed by a Mameluke army in AD 1291...
03 The Reaction 3352015-11 2 04 Crossing the Hellespont 2692015-11 3 05 Campaign in Asia Minor 2282015-11 4 06 Defeat of Darius 1692015-11 5 07 The Siege of Tyre 1472015-11 6 08 Alexander in Egypt 1592015-11 7 09 The Great Victory 1842015-11 8 10 The Death of Darius 1302015-11 9...
Tyre, no longer an island but a peninsula, stands out boldly into the sea, and the first view is very imposing, whether we approach it from the north or the south . . . .The strip of sand between the well and the gate has accumulated on the causeway by which Alexander the Great uni...
In 332 B.C., Alexander the Great constructed an ≈1,000-m-long causeway to seize the offshore island of Tyre. The logistics behind this engineering feat have long troubled archaeologists. Using the Holocene sedimentary record, we demonstrate that Alexander's engineers cleverly exploited a shallow...
In 332 B.C. Alexander the Great set out to conquer this strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians.Unable to storm the city, he blockaded Tyre for seven months. Again Tyre held on. But the conqueror used the debris of the abandoned mainland city to build a ...