Byblos -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

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c. 4000 BC - c. 3000 BC

Trade contact between Byblos and Egypt.
c. 1000 BC

Death of Ahiram (or Ahirom) of Byblos, whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet.

Byblos Books

The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller...

James Patterson

Little, Brown and Company (28 September 2009)

Price: $17.81

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Three Rivers Press (02 April 1996)

Price: $13.57

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall...

Susan Wise Bauer

W. W. Norton & Company (17 March 2007)

Price: $19.77

The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return

Zecharia Sitchin

Harper (01 April 2008)

Price: $7.99

The Stairway to Heaven: Book II of the Earth Chronicles

Zecharia Sitchin

Harper (01 April 2007)

Price: $7.99

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Definition

Ancient Phonecian port city of Gebal (called 'Byblos’ by the Greeks) on the coast of the Mediterranean sea in what is, today, Lebannon. According to the historian Durant, “Byblos thought itself the oldest of all cities; the god El had founded it at the beginning of time, and to the end of its history it remained the religious capital of Phoenicia. Because papyrus was one of the principal articles in its trade, the Greeks took the name of the city as their word for book - 'biblos’ – and from their word for books named our Bible - 'ta biblia’” which means 'the books’ (294).

Byblos (or Gebal) is also cited as the place where the Egyptian goddess Isis located the body of her dead husband in his casket, the king Osiris, in the trunk of a tree which had grown around him after his murder by his brother Set.

(Citation from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935).

Written by JPryst.

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