Hellenistic Kingdoms Timeline

2750 BCE – 1291 CE · 2 sites

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Lebanon

Tyre

2750 BCE – 1291 CE

Legendary Phoenician island metropolis and queen of the Mediterranean maritime trade, founded in the 3rd millennium BCE. Renowned as the birthplace of royal Tyrian purple dye, mother city of Carthage, site of Alexander the Great’s epic 332 BCE siege causeway, and home to the world’s largest Roman hippodrome.

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Bronze AgeHellenisticIron Age

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Dendera

380 BCE – 395 CE

One of the best-preserved ancient Egyptian temple complexes in existence, renowned for its colossal Greco-Roman Hathor Temple, magnificent hypostyle ceiling with astronomical charts, subterranean crypts, and monumental rear reliefs of Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion.

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Dynastic EgyptHellenisticRoman

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