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Exhibition: the archaeological site of Byblos honored at the Louvre
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Archaeological remains of Byblos, a relatively small site and a concentrate of civilizations since the Neolithic era, are on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
© Muriel Maalouf / RFI
By: Muriel Maalouf
It is in Byblos, one of the most important and most visited sites in Lebanon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, that new archaeological discoveries have just been made.
Tombs dating from the Bronze Age, ie 1,800 years before our era, have been uncovered.
An exhibition relating the history of Byblos and highlighting these new excavations is presented at the Louvre: it is also the story of a century-long archaeological collaboration between the museum and the Directorate of Antiquities in Lebanon.
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Archeology