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Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, in the northern part of the Beqaa Valley, a fertile area with plentiful springs. First settled at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE, Baalbek was an essential...

Crusader castle in the village of Tebnine, Lebanon. Photo taken 1983 CE.

The colonnades of the 8th century CE Umayyad palace at Anjar (Lebanon). The palace had a central courtyard surrounded by a peristyle and incorporated decorative or architectonic elements of the Roman era.

Overview of the site of Byblos, the ancient Phoenician port city of Gebal (called Byblos by the Greeks) on the coast of the Mediterranean sea in what is today Lebanon.

The Al Mina excavation area of Tyre (Lebanon) showing the Palestra consisting of a 30 metre wide square area enclosed inside a granite colonnade.

The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. About 1300 artifacts are exhibited, ranging in date from prehistoric times to the medieval Mamluk period.

The ancient city of Anjar is the sole Umayyad settlement in Lebanon, founded during the 8th century CE Umayyad caliphate. It is located in the Bekaa Valley, 47 kilometres (29 miles) south of Baalbek.

The archaeological site of Faqra in Lebanon, located in the Nahr El-Kalb valley region in the north of Beirut. Its most impressive ruins are of the monumental temple–sanctuary dedicated to a deity named Zeus Beelgalasos, the local Baal of...

The archaeological site of Faqra in Lebanon, located in the Nahr El-Kalb valley region in the north of Beirut. The site is dominated by a huge 15 m. sq. tower, which originally had a third storey and a pyramid-shaped roof, as well as a small...

A brilliant 3 minutes video by the talented Charbel Sidawi depicting the glass blowing process used by the last artisans of Lebanon, the Khalifeh brothers of Sarafand. For more info please visit the Green Glass Recycling Initiative for Lebanon...