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Kamid el-Loz
Kamid el-Loz
4000 years and more of rural and urban life in the Lebanese Beqa'a plain
Ancient Purple Dyeing
Ancient Purple Dyeing by Extraction of the Colour from Murex Phylonnus Tronculus, Murex Phylonnus Brandaris, Thais Purpura Haemastoma and Whelk Following the Natural History of Plinius Secundus Calus called Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 79 AD)
Joseph Doumet
DECADE (P.38-49)
TYR – Etude sur la couleur pourpre ancienne – A study on ancient purple
TYR - Etude sur la couleur pourpre ancienne
TYR - A study on ancient purple
Joseph Doumet
AHL Free Issues
Issue 1
CAMILLE ASMAR a Word from the Director THE TRUSTEES About the Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL Anhtropoid Sarcophagi DIALA EZZEDINE Archeology & Ancient DNA (the Living Past) ANDREA RESEK Colloquium at the British Museum MUHAMAD...
Issue 2
CAMILLE ASMAR Byblos: Rationalization and Conservation of an Archaeological Site MUHAMAD-TOUFIC RIFAI Restoration and Renovation of the Umayyad Mosque of Baalbek ANNE-MARIE MAILA-AFEICHE Politique de Conservation de deux Monuments Historiques Libanais: Nahr-el-Kelb et...
Issue 3
CAMILLE ASMAR Dismantling the Concrete Caissons in the Beirut National Museum CAROLE MENDLESON Beirut: Uncovering the Past VRONWY HANKEY A Middle Minoan Cup from the Kharji Cemetery, Beirut JEAN LAUFFRAY Jean Lauffray and the Lebanon PHILIPPE MARQUIS Les Fouilles du...
Issue 4
CAMILLE ASMAR Directorate General of Antiquities Programme of Reconstruction:The Latest Developments MUHAMAD TOUFIC RIFAÏ Latest News on Excavations in the Lebanon HANNA EL BANNA-CHIDIAC Beirut: Uncovering the Past / Beyrouth: le temps retrouvé CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL...
Issue 5
CAMILLE ASMAR Histoire des collections du Musée National de Beyrouth: la collection Ford UWE FINKBEINER Fortifications of Prehellenistic Beirut: The Archaeological Site Beirut 020 FREDERIC ALPI L’épigraphie grecque et latine au Liban: panorama historique MUNTAHA...
Issue 6
RENE HUYGHE Un Musée national d’antiquités et des Beaux-Arts à Beyrouth [reprinted from L’Architecture, vol. XLIV, 2, (1931)] JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE Projet: Musée National de Beyrouth, 1997 SUZY HAKIMIAN Le Musée National de Beyrouth, Renaissance à partir du 25 novembre...
Issue 7
CAMILLE ASMAR Beirut National Museum: Project for the Opening of its Upper Gallery ROLPH A. STUCKY Le sanctuaire d’Echmoun à Sidon EVELYNE CHANTRIAUX-VICARD Les mosaïques du Musée National: quelques aspects du programme de restauration CHRIS G. CUMBERPATCH Approaches...
Issue 8
ISABELLE SKAF The National Museum’s Conservation Laboratory: activities and achievements VALERIE MATOIAN « Liban, l’Autre Rive ». Evocation du patrimoine libanais à l’Institut du Monde Arabe MARGARETE VAN ESS Heliopolis – Baalbek research in ruins 1898 JENS HANSSEN...
Issue 9
HENRI LOFFET La Stèle de Ramsès II en provenance de Tyr TAKESHI GOTOH The Crisis of Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan & Lebanon: a “NAGAYA” or “row of houses” in a downtown area JOSEPH DOUMET De la Teinture en Pourpre des Anciens par l’Extraction du Produit...
Issue 10
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL IntroductionTopography ANNIE CAUBET Remarques sur les Fouilles du Dr Georges Contenau à Helalieh et Ayaa(Sidon) NINA JIDEJIAN Greater Sidon and its “Cities of the Dead”The Temple of Eshmun JOHN CURTIS New Excavation at Sidon CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL...