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Byblos

Mediterranean port city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on earth, a hub of the cedar-wood trade with Egypt and traditionally honoured as the birthplace of the alphabet.

Dated events and their evidence

• 8,000 BCE mainstream
  earliest Neolithic occupation source
• 1,000 BCE mainstream
  Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, earliest known fully-developed Phoenician alphabet text source

Where

34.1185° N, 35.6475° E

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Byblos
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahiram_sarcophagus

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