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Published online 6 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060102-11
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Long-lost Phoenician ports found
Old Mediterranean harbours discovered buried under modern cities.
Thanks to political tensions easing in Lebanon, archaeologists have finally managed to locate the sites of ancient Phoenician harbours in the seaports that dominated Mediterranean trade thousands of years ago.
By drilling out cores of sediment from the modern urban centres of these cities, geologists have mapped out the former coastlines that the sediments have long since buried.
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