The Past In The Time Patrol Series: Tyre, 950 B.C.

Poul Anderson, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (New York, Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 229-331.

Usu is a coastal city with docks, warehouses, flat-roofed adobe buildings, narrow twisting streets, vivid facades for temple or palace, battlemented walls and towers and an aqueduct running down from the Lebanon Mountains. The new city, Tyre/Sor ("Rocks"), located off the coast on an island made by filling between and around two skerries, has a north-south canal, jetties, breakwaters, multi-storey buildings, guardian walls and a large civic hall. In its Egyptian Harbour, Everard sees beggars, slaves, drinking sailors, a dancing girl, a sweetmeat vendor, a laden donkey, priests of Melqart and Osiris, red-haired Achaeans, a Hebrew warrior, a Philistine dignitary, a black man in leopard skin and ostrich plumes, Phoenician urchins, an Assyrian, an Anatolian and a blond Northern European. Stevedores unload a cargo from Ophir and Sinai. Anderson lists the sounds and smells, both pleasant and unpleasant. We are as close to being there as he can take us.