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08/07/2003: "Fall of Tyre"

Alexander the Great undertook the siege of Tyre, in 332 bc, constructing a mole from the mainland across the strait to reach the island fortress. The mole was half a mile long and two hundred feet wide. The great city, over which Hiram had once held sway, was utterly destroyed by early August, 332 bc, and its citizens all killed or sold into slavery. Peter Green writes of Alexander's mole:

"Against Alexander's mole, quiet now under the summer sky, sand began to drift from the coastal dunes, softening the sharp outline of blocks and joists, linking tyre ever more closely to the mainland. The flail of the Lord had done his work all too well. With each passing century the peninsula grew wider. Today, deep under asphalt streets and apartment blocks, the stone core of that fantastic causeway still stands: one of Alexander's most tangible and permanent legacies to posterity."

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