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Middle East, South Governorate

Sidon-Sarafand glass coast (no-go, tantalizing)

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: (multi-era glass beach in theory).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

-1000-1950

[doc-tradition] Sarafand's hand-blown recycled-glass workshops run continuously since antiquity, and Sidon was THE ancient glass city - workshop waste across 2,000+ years on this shore is near-certain. The region's most tantalizing unverified glass beach.

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