List of archaeological sites in Lebanon

This is a list of archaeological sites in the Republic of Lebanon.

There are many tells in Lebanon – artificial mounds formed from the accumulated refuse of people living on the same site for hundreds or thousands of years. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with sloping sides[1] and can be up to 30 metres high.[2] Tells are most commonly associated with the archaeology of the ancient Near East, but they are also found elsewhere, such as Central Asia, Eastern Europe,[3] West Africa[4] and Greece.[5][6] Within the Near East, they are concentrated in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran.[2]

Tells

This is a list of notable archaeological tells in Lebanon sorted by alphabetical order:

• Tell Aalaq
• Tell Ablah
• Tell Addus
• Tell Ahle
• Tell Ain Cerif
• Tell Ain el Meten
• Tell Ain Ghessali
• Tell Ain Nfaikh
• Tell Ain Saouda
• Tell Ain Sofar
• Tell Ayoub
• Tell Bar Elias
• Tell Beshara
• Tell Bir Dakoue
• Tell Deir
• Tell Delhamieh
• Tell Derzenoun
• Tell Dibbine
• Tell el-Burak
• Tell El Ghassil
• Tell El Hadeth
• Tell Fadous
• Tell Hazzine
• Tell Hoch Rafqa
• Tell Karmita
• Tell Khardane
• Tell Kirri
• Tell Jezireh
• Tell Jisr
• Tell Kabb Elias
• Tell Majdaloun
• Tell Masoud
• Tell Mekhada
• Tell Meouchi
• Tell Mureibit
• Tell Murtafa
• Tell Nahariyah
• Tell Neba'a Chaate
• Tell Neba'a Litani
• Tell Nhas
• Tell Qasr Labwe
• Tell Rasm El Hadeth
• Tell Rayak
• Tell Saatiya
• Tell Safiyeh
• Tell Saoudhi
• Tell Serhan
• Tell Shaikh Hassan al Rai
• Tell Shamsine
• Tell Sultan Yakoub
• Tell Taalabaya
• Tell Wardeen
• Tell Zenoub
• Tell Zeitoun

Hellenistic and Roman sites

See also: Phoenicia under Roman rule

• Aaqbe temple
• Arca Caesarea (Arqa)
• Bakka Roman temple
• Berytus (Beirut)

• Cardo Decumanus Crossing
• Cisterns of the Roman Baths, Beirut
• Colonnaded Street
• Hippodrome of Berytus
• Roman Baths, Beirut
• Roman Forum, Beirut

• Dakoue Roman temple
• Al-Hebbariyah Roman temple
• Heliopolis (Baalbek)

• Temple of Bacchus
• Temple of Jupiter

• Jeb Jennine Roman bridge
• Labweh Roman temple
• Leontes Bridge
• Libbaya Roman temple
• Nebi Safa
• Niha
• Qalaat Faqra[7]
• Qasr el Banat[8]
• Saraain El Faouqa
• Sidon (Colonia Aurelia Pia)[9]
• Tripolis
• Tyre

• Tyre Hippodrome
• Tyre Necropolis

• Umm al-Amad[10]
• Yammoune Roman temple

References

1. Archaeology of Palestine, Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound, William Foxwell Albright, 1960, p. 16
2. Wilkinson, Tony J. (2003). Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 100–127. ISBN 978-0-8165-2173-9 – via Internet Archive.
3. Bailey, Douglass W.; Tringham, Ruth; Bass, Jason; Stevanović, Mirjana; Hamilton, Mike; Neumann, Heike; Angelova, Ilke; Raduncheva, Ana (1998-01-01). "Expanding the Dimensions of Early Agricultural Tells: The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria". Journal of Field Archaeology. 25 (4): 373–396. doi:10.1179/009346998792005298. ISSN 0093-4690.
4. MacDonald, Kevin C. (1997). "More forgotten tells of Mali: an archaeologist's journey from here to Timbuktu". Archaeology International. 1 (1): 40–42. doi:10.5334/ai.0112.
5. Davidson, Donald A.; Wilson, Clare A.; Lemos, Irene S.; Theocharopoulos, S. P. (2010-07-01). "Tell formation processes as indicated from geoarchaeological and geochemical investigations at Xeropolis, Euboea, Greece" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Science. 37 (7): 1564–1571. Bibcode:2010JArSc..37.1564D. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.017. hdl:1893/16434.
6. Kotsakis, Kostas (1999). "What Tells can Tell: Social Space and Settlement in the Greek Neolithic". In Halstead, Paul (ed.). Neolithic Society in Greece. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 9781850758242.
7. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2022-12-07). "Qalaat Faqra: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
8. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2023-04-19). "Qasr Neba: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
9. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2024-01-04). "Sidon/Col. Aurelia Pia: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
10. Becker, Jeffrey (2020-08-04). "OSM location of Umm al-Amad, Lebanon: a Pleiades location resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

Further reading

• Lloyd, Seton (1963). Mounds of the Near East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press – via Internet Archive.