Tyre! Jesus, Alexander the Great and I all came. Alex made the bigger impact 😉❤️🇱🇧✨

I went to Tyre because Alexander the Great went. Not just that...his army did something incredible there! Tyre used to be a prominent Phoenician city and is credited with inventing the color purple. Alright, alright...maybe not inventing it per say, but certainly working out how to dye textiles purple. Anyways, Alex showed up in 332 BCE wanting to conquer Tyre and had a hard time doing so. Tyre was an island back then and heavily fortified. The solution was brilliant in its simplicity. Alexander’s army was ordered to dump rocks and whatnot into the ocean until Tyre was connected to the mainland. Then he conquered and destroyed Tyre. As a result Tyre is no longer an island but it is a very charming fisherman’s village which has grown into a modern city.