Village life has followed the domestication of…

Village life has followed the domestication of plants and animals at Jericho and other sites in the Fertile Crescent, with the site of Byblos apparently taking the lead.

The growing city is evidently a wealthy one, and seems to have been an ally of "those who are on his waters" of Egypt for the next several centuries.

First Dynasty tombs use timbers from Byblos.

One of the oldest Egyptian words for an ocean going boat as "Byblos ship.”