History lies in the silt of Tyre By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre THUS Kipling saw the end of Empire. Nineveh is now a collection of dusty mounds on the Tigris near Mosul, endangered by looting in the lawlessness of modern Iraq, but Tyre survives as a modest port on the coast of Lebanon. It is also an archaeological site of immense potential importance, a study concludes. The silting up of its ancient northern harbour “means that the heart of the Bronze Age, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Byzantine ports...