Ancient records, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, talked of Middle East full of all kinds of trees back then, massive forests everywhere, with the whole region involved in a thriving timber industry especially for shipbuilding. The cedar of Lebanon was in demand and among other woods.
The deforestation happened when the Minoans from Crete and the Greek empire had a huge demand for timbers for their expanding civilisations at that time, which lasted for hundreds of years. You can say by the time they were done and the Romans took over, the Roman empire had no forest to raid. But the Roman empire did not support this practice for superstitious belief.
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