National Museum of Beirut
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The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totaling about 100,000 objects, most of which are antiquities and medieval finds from excavations undertaken by the Directorate General of Antiquities.
The facade of the National Museum of Beirut
19th century engraving of the Kaiserswerth deaconesses building in Beirut
The Ship sarcophagus: a sarcophagus showing a Phoenician ship, Sidon, 2nd century CE
Tyre Phoenician necropolis stela
History of Lebanon
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The history of Lebanon covers the history of the modern Republic of Lebanon and the earlier emergence of Greater Lebanon under the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, as well as the previous history of the region, covered by the modern state.
Portrait of Fakhreddine while he was in Tuscany, stating "Faccardino grand emir dei Drusi" translated as "Fakhreddine: great emir of the Druze"
Fakhreddine II Palace in Deir el Qamar
Bashir Shihab II
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in Shuf Mountains: Historically; the Druzes and the Christians in the Shuf Mountains lived in complete harmony.