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Site 7: Batroun, Lebanon.
We’ve already mentioned the Batroun Phoenician wall as being a megalithic structure. This wall was built apparently to protect the Phoenician harbor/port from the big waves. It’s badly eroded unfortunately because of the salty water and the winds. It’s natural for this erosion to occur because of its role and location = protection against waves. It’s amazing it lasted this long.
We believe that most of the coastal Phoenician City-States which didn’t have a “natural” barrier to protect the harbor/port from high waves, also had a similar structure/construction as this wall built in them. But only the one in Batroun survived till our times.
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