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Artifacts is a compilation album by American indie rock band Beirut. It was released digitally on January 28, 2022, through Pompeii Records , and was released on vinyl and CD on April 1, 2022. [ 6 ] The double album includes unreleased tracks, B-sides, some of Zach Condon's earliest recordings at age 14, and a re-release of the band's 2007 Lon ...
A large rock-cut tomb yielded artifacts including bronze weapons, personal ornaments and stone vessels, the latter imported from Egypt. Two caves cut out of the bedrock yielded similar finds, including pottery from Cyprus. The construction of fortifications since the 7th century A.D. destroyed many layers of the Tell, but left the tombs intact.
The National Museum of Beirut currently exhibits 1,300 artifacts from its collection of approximately 100,000 objects. [32] The museum displays follow a chronological circuit beginning in Prehistory and ending in the Ottoman era. The circuit begins on the ground floor where 83 large objects are displayed, these include sarcophagi, mosaics ...
The Ford Collection sarcophagi are a collection of ancient anthropoid Phoenician sarcophagi, considered a highlight of the National Museum of Beirut. [1] They are made from white marble. They were discovered in 1901 in shaft tombs at Ain al-Hilweh , southeast of Sidon , during the excavations of the American School in Jerusalem.
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods.. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman-Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick from Joub Jannine II, Lebanon.
Ksar Akil (also Ksar 'Akil or Ksar Aqil [3]) is an archeological site 10 km (6.2 mi) northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It is located about 800 m (2,600 ft) west of Antelias spring on the north bank of the northern tributary of the Wadi Antelias. It is a large rock shelter below a steep limestone cliff. [4]
The artifacts in the collection of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Saint Joseph University became the basis of the museum. [ 6 ] This faculty established a research centre in 1988 that led to the creation of the Museum of Prehistory in June 2000.
By the turn of the 20th century, Beirut was vying with Cairo to be the major centre for Near Eastern and Middle Eastern thought, with many newspapers, magazines and literary societies. Additionally, Beirut became a thriving epicenter of Armenian culture with varied productions [3] that was exported to the Armenian diaspora.