Beirut the city of multiculturalism and religions

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Visiting Beirut is one of the greatest pleasures you can have. I recommend that you sit in one of the numerous cafes and enjoy people-watching and you will realize the great multiculturalism that this city has as well as the different religious beliefs that are based in it. Will you accompany me to visit it? NATIONAL MUSEUM It was inaugurated in . During the Lebanese civil war the museum building suffered considerable damage but most of the collection has been rescued. The three-story building is designed by architects Antoine Nahas and Pierre Leprince Ringuet in a neo-Egyptian style and built of ocher limestone. The exhibition space totals pieces. \displaystyle \mathrm m^. The collection includes pieces found in Lebanese territory from prehistory to the Ottoman Empire.

Sarcophagus of Tire nd century BC The Lebanese cultural heritage combines ruins of temples castles and streets monuments statues sarcophagi mosaics relics jewelry armory and countless archaeological objects to which are added works of CXB Directory modern art that They bring together sculpture painting architecture and music. The collection has prehistoric artifacts from early hunter-gatherer societies ranging from the Lower Paleolithic to the Neolithic including spearheads flints fish hooks and pottery. These pieces were found in caves and rock shelters throughout Lebanese territory. In the Bronze Age - BCE the first fortified villages in Lebanon were born maritime activities and the invention of the world's first alphabet were developed in Byblos.



This collection includes the museum's masterpiece the sarcophagus of Ahiram which contains the oldest text written in the Phoenician alphabet. An inscription of words is written in the ancient Phoenician dialect and is considered the oldest testimony of the Phoenician alphabet and the longest discovered to date. The inscription on the sarcophagus is a curse for desecrators and says: “If a king among kings a governor among governors or a general should attack Byblos and desecrate this sarcophagus the staff of his power will be removed his throne will collapse and the calm of Byblos.