Description
Alexander had defeated Persian forces at Issus, but one island fortress still stood in his way. Tyre resisted from offshore, protected by water, walls, ships, and distance, forcing Alexander to solve a problem no normal land army could easily overcome: before he could storm the city, he had to reach it. To do that, he ordered a causeway built through the sea.
This documentary follows the siege of Tyre in 332 BCE, when Macedonian workers pushed stone and timber into the water while Tyrian defenders struck back with ships, missiles, and fire. The siege became a contest of engineering, naval power, persistence, and adaptation, securing Alexander’s control of the Phoenician coast and opening the way toward Gaza and Egypt. Its deeper lesson is simple: Alexander’s conquest was not won only by cavalry charges — at Tyre, victory had to be built before it could be taken.