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The ancient Greeks speculated as to whether the Phoenicians were originally from Tylos.

According to the 19th century German classicist, Arnold Heeren: “ In the Greek geographers, for instance, we read of two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boased that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of Phoenician temples .” The people of Tyre in particular have long maintained Persian Gulf origins, and the similarity in the words “ Tylos ” and “ Tyre ” has been commented upon.