The ancient Egyptians' travels to the Phoenician coastal City of Byblos

Abstract EN

There were many travels and journeys that the ancient Egyptians did to the coastal cities in the eastern Mediterranean.

One of the most important cities of that region to which the Egyptians travelled was Byblos "Jbail".

This paper aims mainly to try to identify the true reason behind the Egyptians' travels to Byblos.

In addition to that, the paper, through the archaeological, textual, and pictorial evidences, sheds some light on the Egyptians' transportations means to Byblos, the route or the sea lane through which they used to go there, as well as the influences of such Egyptians' travels on the Byblite community.