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Byblos and all of Lebanon were placed under French Mandate from 1920 until 1943 when Lebanon achieved independence. The 2006 Lebanon War negatively affected the ancient city by covering its harbour and town walls with an oil slick that was the result of an oil spill from a nearby power plant.
The royal necropolis of Byblos is a group of nine Bronze Age underground shaft and chamber tombs housing the sarcophagi of several kings of the city. Byblos (modern Jbeil) is a coastal city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously populated cities in the world.
Byblos Castle. Byblos Castle (Arabic: قلعة جبيل) is a Crusader castle in Byblos, Lebanon.In Crusader times it was known as the Castle of Gibelet / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ə l ɪ t, ˈ dʒ ɪ b l ɪ t /, also spelled Giblet, which belonged to the Genoese Embriaco family, Lords of the city.
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The capital Byblos is an important historical and archaeological site boasting Phoenician, Roman, and Crusader ruins. The mountain village of Aannaya hosts the Saint Maroun-Aannaya monastery and the Catholic shrine of Saint Charbel (1828-1898), the first Lebanese saint (officially canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1977), both significant religious ...
It is considered "perhaps the most spectacular" of the ancient structures of Byblos. [3] It is the best preserved building in the Byblos archaeological site. [4] Almost all of the artefacts found in the excavation of the temple are displayed at the National Museum of Beirut. [3] It was excavated by French archaeologist Maurice Dunand from 1924-73.
The dedication of the present temple ruins, the largest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of Septimus Severus, whose coins first show the two temples. The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla (211-217 CE) and Philip the Arab (244-249 CE).
English: Byblos, Gubal, Lebanon. Continuously inhabited since 5000 BC. The Byblos archaeological site contains the remains of the Great Temple and the Temple of Ba'alat Gebal, both built around 2700 BC, as well as the Temple of the Obelisks, built around 1600 BC.