Also a biblical city, Gebal, was the most important trading port on the eastern Mediterranean in the 3rd millenium B.C. The name was changed to Byblos by the Greeks who came to power here in 333 B.C. The word bublos means papyrus, which came from Egypt and was then shipped onward to Greece. Not much is left of the sprawling ruin apart from the crusader castle that now dominates the site.