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Published online 14 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070514-2
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How geology came to help Alexander the Great
A natural sand-bridge made his defeat of Tyre easier.
Historians need not be quite so impressed by Alexander the Great's defeat of the island of Tyre in 332BC. Geological studies of the region show that Alexander's army had help reaching the island, in the form of a natural land-bridge lying just a metre or two below the water's surface.
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