The City of Tyre

We spoke of ugarit during episode six, which was our late bronze age collapse episode. But at least this does mean that we know that the worship of baul existed in this geographical area previous to 12 hundred b c e. Tyre had its own supreme deity, just like many other cities. As wea already clarified, tyr's deity was called melcart. And as the lead phoenician city when it came to their mediterranean expansion, melcart would become an extremely important punic deity and there were temples built for him throughout punic lands. When we say punic, we refer to natians and subsequently the carthaginians, all of whom share the same