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Obelisk Temple at Byblos, Lebanon

Byblos, Lebanon

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Byblos: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Jubayl • Gebal • Jebeil • Gibelet • Gubla • Kubna

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Obelisk Temple at Byblos, Lebanon

Byblos, Lebanon

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archaeology temple papyrus Phoenician alphabet Petra Babylon Qin tomb Göbekli Tepe Ajanta Caves Taxila Carthage Golconda Masada Borobudur

Lebanon

Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza

ancient Egypt

Phoenician ship at Sidon port

Phoenicia

historical region, Asia

ancient Middle East

ancient Middle East

historical region, Asia

Key People

Pierre Montet

French Egyptologist

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Al-Jizah. Giza Necropolis, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt. Side view of Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background. The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids are astronomically oriented to be north-south, east-west (see notes)

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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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Tomb of Mohammed Bin Ali, Salalah, Oman.

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