Temples of Byblos belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 3000 BCE at Byblos, Levant. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
Byblos shipped cedar to Egypt and imported ideas; its temples to Baalat Gebal sat on one of the longest-lived sacred plots on Earth.
How it was made
L-shaped temple, obelisk temple with votive standing stones, and a well that served both cult and city.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
The wonder is duration: a harbour that kept rebuilding the same conversation with the sea and with Egypt.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 3000 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 48 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.