This was once the entrance to a major port after the Phoenicians settled here in 654 BC.
About 5, 500 years ago, some Phoenicians cooking dinner in the desert found that heat turned sand into glass.
More than three thousand years on, children play along the modern boardwalk under the citadel the Phoenicians once built.
It was from here that the Phoenicians sent their ships across the Mediterranean.
Beale based his ambitious quest on a quote by Greek Historian Herodotus, who claimed the Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa in 600BC.
Tyre, known as the city that ruled the seas, is considered to be one of the oldest and most thriving Phoenicians cities.
"Phoenicians started the civilization, they are the ones who invented the alphabet, I would be very proud to be a Phoenician, " he adds.
Along with their sophisticated seafaring skills, the Phoenicians were renowned as an intellectual and industrious civilization who helped develop the alphabet we still use today.
But the popularity of the new light-rail system (along with the spectacular burst of the housing bubble) suggests that Phoenicians may be considering a sustainable (shudder) lifestyle.
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The Phoenicians were there first, sailing from the relative safety of the Mediterranean into unknown ocean waters off Morocco in search of the Murex snails used to make imperial purple dye.
Locals also moan that Phoenicians are becoming more antisocial.
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The mysterious Nuraghic people came around 1800 BC, followed by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Germanic Vandals, Byzantines, Pisans, Genoese and Spanish, before the island was incorporated into a unified Italy in 1861.
Paper comes from the Chinese, the Western alphabet comes from the Phoenicians, the page numbers come from the Arabs and ultimately the Indians, and printing has a heritage through Gutenberg, a German, as well as through the Chinese and Koreans.
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