Historical research leads to believe that Dabké Dance belongs to the Phoenician of Lebanon: In his suspense novel, The Ethiopics, Heliodorus third AD recounts his meeting with the Phoenicians at Delphi: "They then told me that they were Phoenicians from Tyre , traders by trade, and that they were going to Carthage of Lybia (Africa) with a cargo full of Indian and Ethiopians goods, and others from Phoenicia. For the moment, they celebrated this banquet in honor of Heracles Tyrian (Melart) to celebrate the victory of this young man (they showed me a boy seated in front of me), who had won the crown in the fight and had proclaimed, among the Greeks, the success of the city of Tire... When I left them, they still listening to the flutes and dancing; they were jumping, to the sound of ...wind instruments, at a rapid pace, sometimes they rose into the air with light leaps, sometimes they crouched low to the ground and whirled with their whole bodies like people possessed." page 141 Source french: Héliodore, Les Ethiopiques. ISBN 2-07-053456-1 Also read "The Phoenician Women" Euripides fourth century BC. ISBN 0-19-5077083
