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Ancient cities in Lebanon matching “Mount Lebanon Governorate” · Mysteria

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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city

Byblos

Neolithic to Medieval (8800 BCE–present; urban from c.5000 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite / Phoenician / Egyptian / Roman / Crusader

Continuously inhabited since Neolithic, Byblos is one of the oldest cities in the world. Phoenician port that gave the Bible its name (byblos = papyrus), with layers from Neolithic, Chalcolithic,…