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Byblos

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Byblos exported papyrus to Greece, and the Greek word for the material, and later for the book and the Bible itself, came from the town's own name. Its excavation shows a single mound with Neolithic huts, Phoenician temples, a Roman colonnade and a Crusader castle stacked on each other, and the fishing harbour below still works.

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