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Roman emperor Macrinus coin showing the temple of Baalat Gebal and its sacred enclosure, the only surviving depiction of the temple. The site of the temple is near the Crusaders' Byblos Castle, and was first excavated by French archaeologist Pierre Montet from 1921–24 and subsequently in the early part of Maurice Dunand's excavation of the city.
Byblos was crowned as the "Arab Tour Capital" for the year 2016 by the Lebanese minister of tourism in the Grand Serail in Beirut. Byblos was chosen by Condé Nast Traveler as the second best city in the Middle East for 2012, beating Tel Aviv and Dubai, [58] and by the World Tourism Organization as the best Arab tourist city for 2013. [59]
Christopher Rollston, "The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass." MAARAV 15 (2008): 57–93.; Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 [original publication: 1946]): 231–247.
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.
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 Osorkon Bust, also known as the Eliba'l Inscription is a bust of Egyptian pharaoh Osorkon I, discovered in Byblos (in today's Lebanon) in the 19th century.Like the Tabnit sarcophagus from Sidon, it is decorated with two separate and unrelated inscriptions – one in Egyptian hieroglyphics and one in Phoenician script.
They arrived in the Kingdom of Jerusalem as early as 1099, with Guglielmo Embriaco and his brother Primo di Castello. [3] They had Byblos, given to Ugo I Embriaco by Bertrand of Toulouse, from about 1110, thanks to Embriaco's military assistance in the creation of the Crusader states, on behalf of the Republic of Genoa.
The highly defensible archeological tell of Byblos is flanked by two harbors that were used for sea trade. [37] The royal necropolis of Byblos is a semicircular burial ground located on the promontory summit, on a spur overlooking both seaports of the city, within the walls of ancient Byblos. [38] [39]