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History of Tyre - Ancient
In 2500 BC, the people of the Mediterranean basin were still in the
stone age with only copper. On arrival in the Atlantic and the coast
of France the Phoenicians for the the first time came upon tin and
learned the technoly necessary to create bronze, which is stronger
and less prone to rusting than copper. So important was the discovery
that the land was named "Barra Tannica" (land of tin) or
Brittany. Specialist say the Druids controlled the trade from Cornwall
in the North to France in the West to Huelva in the South. The Phoenicians
kept their contacts with the Druids as a national secret even to the
point of destroying their own ships if followed. In addition there
is evidence that the Phoenicians restricted the Greeks in the Aegean
Sea by their control of long straight Cedar timbers and the bronze
for their ship's fixings, claddings and battering rams.. This monopoly
on tin and quality sea going vessels gave the Phoenicians security
and military power for over 1000 years.
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