Here it is, in a message to all Lebanese, the birth of the year 2020, testifies: “The greatness of the cedar in the Holy Bible is that it is a symbol of steadfastness, stability, and protection.

Ancient DNA Study Reveals Surprising Origins. Carthage, known for its vast Mediterranean empire and epic conflicts with Rome, ... Phoenician traders from modern-day Lebanon, particularly from ...

The Phoenicians were the consummate sailors of the ancient Mediterranean, a Semitic people from the Levant, whose main cities — Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos — thrived on trade and seafaring.

19th-century depiction of Phoenician sailors and merchants. Publisher New York Ward, Lock Public Domain. The ancient Greeks named the Phoenicians the “purple people” because of the rare purple dye ...

He negotiated with the Phoenician king of Tyre and Sidon, sending Israelite men by the tens of thousands to learn how to cut down trees and then to actually do the work of cutting, because “we ...

For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes” (Luke 10:13). We turn now to some unique uses of ashes.

The ancient port of the city of Tyre submerged off the coast of the city. Credit: RomanDeckert / Wikimedia Commons One of Marinus’ greatest contributions was the introduction of a coordinate system ...

Pirates once swashbuckled across the ancient Mediterranean. ... Sidon, and Tyre in Lebanon, and Athens, Aegina, and Corinth in Greece, relied on marine resources such as fish, ... Maps.) In the ...

A historic map of Eretz Israel showing Lake Kinneret and both banks of the Jordan River. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry, known for frequently issuing statements condemning Israel, on Tuesday ...

But as soon as she arrived in her neighborhood in Tyre, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast, her chest tightened and tears rolled down her face. “I’m sad. I’m happy.

He claimed that Zevulun's tomb in Sidon "was a place of pilgrimage for Jews from throughout the region" and that there were other tombs of revered Jewish figures in southern Lebanon. Freund added that ...