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Phoenician Tyr was
queen of the seas, an island city of unprecedented splendor. Founded at
the start of the third millennium BC, the city didn't experience its golden
age until the first millennium BC. Tyr and the whole ancient Syria fell
under Roman rule in 64 BC who built many monuments in the city, as we see
here the columned porticoes that bordered the streets.
Triumphal arch from the Roman period.