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                                          Lebanon finds 2,900 year old Phoenician remains






Wed Nov 12, 2008   
BEIRUT
(Reuters) -

Lebanese and Spanish archaeologists have discovered 2,900-year-old earthenware pottery that
ancient Phoenicians used to store the bones of their dead after burning the corpses.

They said more than 100 jars were discovered at a Phoenician site in the southern coastal city of
Tire. Phoenicians are known to have thrived from 1500 B.C. to 300 B.C and they were also headquartered in the coastal area of present-day Syria.

"The big jars are like individual tombs. The smaller jars are left empty, but symbolically represent
that a soul is stored in them," Ali Badawi, the archaeologist in charge in Tire, told Reuters Wed-
nesday.

Badawi and a Spanish team from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona have been excavating
at the Phoenician site for years. The site was first discovered in 1997 but archaeologists have
only been able to dig up 50 square meters per year.

"These discoveries help researchers who work on past Phoenician colonies in Spain, Italy and
Tunisia, to pin down a large number of their habits and traditions," said Maria Eugenia Aubet, who
leads the Spanish team.

"Especially since there are few studies of the Phoenicians in their motherland 'Lebanon'," Aubet
said, adding that the remains proved that the Phoenicians were a people who had a vision for life
after death.

The last excavation was in 2005. A war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas concentrat-
ed in southern Lebanon and the tenuous political and security situation in 2007 halted work on the
site until this year.

A seafaring civilization, the Phoenicians' earliest cities included Byblos, Tire and Sidon on Lebanon's coast. From Tire, the Phoenicians are thought to have expanded into other colonies on the Mediterranean coast.



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Earthenware Phoenician potteries are seen at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon

November 12, 2008.

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An archaeologist unearths a Phoenician pottery found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon

November 12, 2008.

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A worker unearths Phoenician potteries found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon

November 12, 2008.

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Archaeologists work on earthenware potteries found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon

November 12, 2008.

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Lebanese archaeologists work at an excavation site were Phoenician pottery was found in the southern
Lebanese city of Tyre.

A Phoenician-era cemetery has been uncovered in Lebanon's coastal town of Tyre, officials said on Wednesday, adding that the find could provide key information about the seafaring civilisation.

(AFP/Jihad Siqlawi)
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Archaeologists unearth Phoenician pottery at an excavation site in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.

Archaeologists discovered around one hundred pieces potteries dating between 700 and 900 B.C. that Phoenicians used to bury their dead after cremation.

(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Archaeologists unearth Phoenician pottery at an excavation site in the southern port city of Tyre,
Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.

Archaeologists discovered around one hundred pieces potteries dating between 700 and 900 B.C. that
Phoenicians used to bury their dead after cremation.

(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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                                               Phoenician-era cemetery found in Lebanon






Nov. 12, 2008
TYRE, Lebanon
(AFP) —

A Phoenician-era cemetery has been uncovered in Lebanon's coastal town of Tyre, officials said on Wednesday, adding that the find could provide key information about the seafaring civilisation.

"This discovery represents for now the most important source of information to better understand the history of the Phoenicians in this region," said Ali Badawi, an archaeologist and head of antiquities in Tyre, which was a major Phoenician seaport from about 2000 BC onwards through the Roman period.

He told AFP that the cemetery, found nearly intact at the eastern edge of the town, dates to between the ninth and seventh centuries BC.

"The importance of this cemetery is that it is located in one of the main Phoenician towns," said Maria Aubet, a professor of archaeology who headed a team from Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University which investigated the find along with Lebanese colleagues.

Badawi said that more than 60 pieces of hermetically sealed earthenware 50 centimetres (20 inches) deep were found scattered across a 300-square-metre (3,228-square-foot) area at the site. Inside
the jars were charred bones.

"It was traditional in Phoenician times to burn the cadavers and the bones of the dead," Aubet said.

Researchers hope the bones will help shed some light on the diet and the social status of those buried at the site.

The site was first discovered in 1997 and an archaeological dig began four years ago but was interrupted in 2006 because of the July-August war between the militant Shiite Hezbollah group and Israel.

Tyre was the main city-state in ancient Phoenicia, which covered roughly the same area as modern-day Lebanon. Among the other main centres of the civilisation were Byblos, Sidon and what is now Beirut.
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                                          Phoenician-era cemetery found in south Lebanon






Beirut /13/11/ 2008
Makfaxonline

Spanish archeologists have unearthed a Phoenician-era cemetery in Lebanon's coastal town of Tyre, which could provide key information about the seafaring civilization.

"This discovery represents for now the most important source of information to better understand the history of the Phoenicians," said the archaeologist Ali Bandai.

The cemetery dates to between the ninth and seventh centuries BC.

"The importance of this cemetery is that it is located in one of the main Phoenician towns," said Maria Abet, a professor of archaeology who headed a team from Barcelona's Pompous Fabric University which investigated the find along with Lebanese colleagues.

Bandai said that more than 60 pieces of hermetically sealed earthenware were found scattered across the site. Inside the jars were charred bones.

"It was traditional in Phoenician times to burn the cadavers and the bones of the dead," Abet said.

Researchers hope the bones will help shed some light on the diet and the social status of those buried at the site.

On the Lebanon's coast, the Phoenicians founded the cities of Tyre, Bibles and Simon.

The archaeological dig at the site began in 2005, but was interrupted in 2006 because of the war between the militant Shiite Hezbollah group and Israel. /end/ nv



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Important Phoenician settlement on the coast of Lebanon south of Beirut.

Continuous settlement has restricted excavation to the Byzantine and Roman levels and information about the Phoenician town comes only from documentary sources.

It was situated on an offshore island and had a double harbour linked by a canal which allowed
sheltered anchorage and a safe outlet whatever the wind direction.

It appears in ancient documents as a powerful and important trading centre famous especially for the purple dye made from murex shells which was known as Tyrian Purple after this site.

It was the parent city of Carthage which inherited the leadership of the western Phoenician (Punic) cities after Tyre fell to the Neo-Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 572 BC.

On this occasion the city withstood a 13 year siege before it fell; in 332 BC there was another remarkable siege by Alexander the Great who finally succeeded by building a causeway to the island from the mainland ...
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Phoenician Tyre was queen of the seas, an island city of unprecedented splendor.

She grew wealthy from her far-reaching colonies and her industries of purple-dyed textiles.

But she also attracted the attention of jealous conquerors among them the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great.
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                  TYRE

                  REPLICA OF PHOENICIAN SHIP
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