Lebanon National's Museum

by Nabil Charbel The Middle East land of history land of conquerors, cradle of Christianism and civilizations, many events passed through Lebanon and all gathered in one HOUSE which is the National Museum-Once you it you smell History through the Scriptures and statues.
National Museum -The Interior
	Lebanon National's Museum from the interior-Centuries of History and Archeologia slept inside the walls.
	The iron age(1200-333) in Lebanon saw the climax of the Phoenician civilization,which culminated in its maritime expansion and the transmission to other cultures after the Alphabet(Which was attributed by the reek legend to the Tyrian CADMUS)-during the period,after an era of autonomy,the city states of the area came under ASSYRIAN,BABYLONIAN and PERSIAN hegemony-The occupying civilizations influenced and Phoenician ceramics,jewelery and ivory work,statues,and sarcophagi.

	AHIRAM sacrophagus-Roman Period=in 64 BC,the military expedition of POMPEY put an end to the anarchy in the SELEUCID empire,and Phoenicia became part of the Roman World.But Roman civil wars was continued to disrupt the region until 31 BC,after which,with the reign of AUGUSTUS,the Pax Romana extended over the area.The pax Romana favored international trade and local industries in silversmithing,glass,textiles and ceramic developed-
	BAAL-the PHOENICIAN GOD=Philo of Byblos,born around 65 AD at Byblos in Phoenician,died around 140,also called PHILO(Latin Herennius Philo) probably because it was the customer and the adopted son of the Consul Herennius Severes is a polygraph Greek language author of numerous books on grammatical content,historical or encyclopedic=Philo presume that the beginning was the thick air and NEANT(nothing) and from them became the wind and desire that brought the god Mpth with an egg shape and inside the egg were roots of creatures that remained silent until the egg was opened-then Moth throw the sun the moon and stars-and from the lights effects the water were separeted from the sky- and from the wind(KOLPIA) and his wife (BAUU) born (AION) the life and (PROTOGONOS) the elder that at their turn were married and gave Jinus anf Jinia-so Jinia worship the sun and had three sons=Light fire and flame and the three discovered the fire and from it came the giants and one of them built the cities
Flottage CEDRES-Transport of the Cedar maritime	PHOENICIAN ALPHABET BY KADMOUS