Article: Computer generates Beirut's noble past

When this earthquake of might suddenly happened, the sea drew off and was poured back and restrained from the city of Berytus and from the rest of the cities of the seacoast of Phoenicia, and stood in a heap in its midst by the decree of God as far as a distance of two miles . . . {then} there came the great earthquake which overthrew the buildings of the cities, especially in Berytus. It brought down and crushed those who had escaped from the sea . . . the sea was lifted up over their heads behind them, and the earthquake struck the city.

- Chronicles of Pseudo-Dionysius

JEAN-PIERRE Asmar can call up on his computer the ghosts of the earthquake that destroyed Roman Beirut. The screen slowly ...

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