Tag: Phoenicia

Lebanon/Heritage: The small temple of Faqra Less well known than the Great Roman Temple which is attributed to Jupiter - Heliopolis just like the temples of Baalbeck, the sanctuary of Faqra also has on its side a small temple originally pagan and backed by a proto-Byzantine church, which overlooks one of the streams of the Nahr Kalb River.

Not very far from us, we tend to forget, the famous historic valley of Nahr el Kalb, site now classified by Unesco as "Memory...

Capital of southern Lebanon, Tire was originally an island, which became silted up following the construction of a dike by Alexander the Great to...

The large juniper, of its Latin name Juniperus Excelsa , is known in Lebanon as Lezzeb. Highly appreciated by the Egyptians and Phoenicians, it...

Tire, one of the premier cities in the region, was founded in the 3rd millennium BC. It will shine so much in History through...

The main museum in Lebanon, the National Museum's primary mission is to bring together archaeological artifacts discovered in the territory of the Land of...