Byblos was founded c. 3000 B.C. at modern day Jebail in Lebanon. The city would survive repeated attacks by the Sea Peoples in the late Bronze Age to form the Phoenician empire along with Tyre and Sidon.
Phoenicia was a seafaring nation and because of this Byblos was a prosperous merchant city. Its most important export was paper or papyrus which led to the Greeks calling any book "biblos", from which we get the word "bible."