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Byblos (/ ˈ b ɪ b l ɒ s / BIB-loss; Ancient Greek: Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Arabic: جُبَيْل, romanized: Jubayl, locally Jbeil [ʒ(ə)beːl]), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.
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]
Byblos District has three seats allocated to it in the Lebanese Parliament. Two of these seats are allocated to Maronite Catholics, while the other seat is allocated to Shia Muslims. As of 2022, the religious make-up of the Byblos District's 85,684 voters were roughly 66% Maronite Catholics , 21% Shia , 4% Greek Orthodox , 4% Sunni , 2% Greek ...
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. Русский: Библ, Гебал, Ливан.
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 name of one of the oldest known kings of Byblos, Abishemu I the earliest reference to the Lukka people , known from numerous later Egyptian and Hittite sources [ 1 ] [ 2 ] a reference to "Herishef", considered by Dunand to be the Egyptian name of the Canaanite god Resheph , and thus giving the alternate name "Temple of Resheph" for the ...
Known in ancient times as Aphaca (Ancient Greek: Ἄφακα), [5] the word can be interpreted as "source", [6] is located in the mountains of Lebanon, about 20 kilometres from the ancient city of Byblos, which still stands just east of the town of Qartaba. [7]
The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-15908-6. Kilani, Marwan (24 October 2019). Byblos in the Late Bronze Age: Interactions Between the Levantine and Egyptian Worlds. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-41659-8.