Levant island is located in an area where, for thousands of years, one circulating by boat along the coast. As such, it was to be used by sailors, inhabited at least intermittently by fishermen farmers. It is usual, without any solid proof, to admit that the Levant island would be that which Pliny the Elder designates by the name of Phila.

Prehistory: from 7,500 to 5,500 BC Punctual presence, fishing activities. On the “Avis” harbor site were found ancient bronzes with a flat bottom and a careneed vase.

Iron Age: 1000 BC On the “Liserot” site (near Titan beach), traces of Deus-cabins with poles reinforcements, a stone foundation laid in line field (VI to V century BC), amphoras and antique ceramics.

Gallo-Roman era 1st and 2nd century It is agriculture valorization.In the Titan vale, one found habitat traces with concrete broken tile fragments, also in “Jas-vieux”, at castle, “les Grottes” beach and valley..

To earliest centuries of Christianity , hermits were living. Around the year 400, Around the year 400, the island Levant island has a great reputation. Lerins Islands monks establish an annex of their convent, led by Theodore, a holy man, became in 426, the 3rd Frejus bishop.

From year 900 to year 1200, it is barbarian invasions period. Island is property of the house of Fos.the Barbarian pirates loot the continent villages and come to take refuge in islands

Middle Age Presence of a fortified habitat and a cemetery above Castellas’s tip XIIe in XIVe

Around 1400, Benedictines settled on Levant island and built a convent which one find some remains to “Jas Vieux”, near the Titan’s Tower. Despite barbarian pirates invasions, island is still inhabited in 1536, when the dreadedful Kair-ed-din, said Barbarossa, then King of France allied, came to stay in Hyeres islands.