Scenery in ancient city of Byblos, Lebanon Source:Xinhua Published: 2019/12/11 14:36:16 Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2019 shows ruins of a castle in the sea in the ancient city of Byblos, Lebanon.

The earliest records of Byblos date back 7,000 years and it became a preeminent Mediterranean port by the third century BC. Since then, the city has had many conquerors, and its fate as a port has ...

Byblos, Lebanon’s Ancient Port, Is Reborn. Share full article. ... The city lost some of its luster during the 1980s and ’90s, when civil war scared off Lebanon’s rich and famous.