Byblos
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How it came to be
People first settled at Byblos between about 8800 and 7000 BC, and the site has been lived in continuously since around 5000 BC. Called Gubla in the Amarna letters, it was a major importer of Egyptian papyrus.
Greeks came to call papyrus 'byblos' after the city, the root of the English word 'Bible'. Royal inscriptions from about 1150–950 BC use a 22-letter Phoenician alphabet. Crusaders built a castle here in the 12th century.
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