Umm Al Amad, or Umm el 'Amed or al Auamid or el-Awamid, is an Hellenistic period archaeological site near the town of Naqoura in Lebanon. It was discovered by Europeans in the 1770s, and was excavated in 1861. It is one of the most excavated archaeological sites in the Phoenician heartland.
Ruins in 1839, published in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
Ruins in the 1780s, by Louis-François Cassas.
Ruins of the Eastern temple (2019)
Throne of Astarte in the Louvre
National Museum of Beirut
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