Editing Sidon (section)

===Bronze Age city and kingdom===
====City of Sidon (Sidon IV site)====
In the area of this ruined Crusader castle, recent excavations uncovered a late Early Bronze Age I (EB I) settlement on bedrock. Here, an uninterrupted sequence from EB I to EB III was found. A modest third-millennium BC settlement consisting of domestic installations and tombs was also uncovered.<ref>Doumet-Serhal, C. 2006. "The Early Bronze Age in Sidon: 'College Site' Excavations (1998–2000–2001)". ''Bibliothèque archeologique et historique'' 178. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient</ref><ref name=":5">Doumet-Serhal, C. 2010. "Sidon during the Bronze Age: Burials, Rituals and Feasting Grounds at 'College Site{{'"}}. ''Near Eastern Archaeology'', 73:114–129.</ref> Yet the following history of Sidon was not clarified. Very little has been known about the location, extent, and significance of Middle Bronze Age (MBA) Sidon until recently.<ref name=":5" />

====Tell el-Burak MBA settlement====
Since the early 21st century, [[Tell el-Burak]] excavations have helped significantly in this area, because it was an active settlement during MBA, and quite well preserved. Tell el-Burak is located along the coast 9&nbsp;km south from Sidon. Previously, there was a big gap in the history of this whole coastal area from the end of the [[Early Bronze Age]] until the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, when Sidon is first mentioned in the historical texts.<ref name= Sader>{{cite journal |first1=Hélène |last1=Sader |first2=Jens |last2=Kamlah |date=2010 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261732734 |title=Tell el-Burak: A New Middle Bronze Age Site from Lebanon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110025908/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261732734_Tell_el-Burak_A_new_Middle_Bronze_Age_Site_from_Lebanon |archive-date=10 November 2021 |journal=Near Eastern Archaeology |volume=73 |issue=2/3 |pages=130–141 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |doi=10.1086/NEA25754042 |via=ResearchGate }}</ref>

====MBA kingdom of Sidon====
Archaeologists determined that Sidon was clearly the big power centre during MBA, controlling significant territory. So there appears to have been the "Kingdom of Sidon" that controlled el-Burak, and many other surrounding areas.<ref name= Sader/>