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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.
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.
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 ...
The Temple of the Obelisks (French: Temple aux Obelisques, Arabic: معبد الأنصاب maebad al'ansab), also known as the L-shaped Temple and Temple of Resheph [1] was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos. [2] It is considered "perhaps the most spectacular" of the ancient structures of Byblos. [3]
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.
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.
Built in 2800 BCE, [3] it was the largest and most important sanctuary in ancient Byblos, [4] and is considered to be "one of the first monumental structures of the Syro-Palestinian region". [3] Two centuries after the construction of the Temple of Baalat Gebal, the Temple of the Obelisks was built approximately 100m to the east.
Yehimilk Phoenician Inscription in the Byblos Castle Museum. The Yehimilk inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 4 or TSSI III 6) published in 1930, [1] [2] currently in the museum of Byblos Castle. It was published in Maurice Dunand's Fouilles de Byblos (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1141, plate XXXI). [3]