Travel Guide to Lebanon | Wild Frontiers

[@fjordhellas4077]

Great video! I’m Norwegian and I got the chance to discover Lebanon when I went there as a student to learn Arabic at the American University of Beirut. It was a memorable experience in every sense. I loved everything about this gorgeous country with an incredible history that is more ancient than Greece and Rome. Lebanon was known as Phoenicia, as ancient as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia and Syria. The Alphabet we use today was invented by the Phoenicians in the very ancient city of Byblos, an architectural gem about 30 km north of Beirut. The Phoenicians have left a lasting mark on Humanity with the invention of the Alphabet that changed and revolutionized communication between people and nations, it’s comparable to the advent of the internet because the Egyptian hieroglyphs were too complex to be used by ordinary people and were limited to the entourage of the pharaohs. And what we call the Roman Law, was written and conceived by the Phoenicians in the city state of Berytus ( today Beirut) at least three thousand years older than Rome. The Romans used the Phoenicians’ laws of Berytus and the world knows it as the Roman Law..we even own the very name of our continent Europe to Phoenicia as Europe was taken from princess Eurp, a native of the city state of Tyre ( about 25 Kms south of Beirut), the people of Tyre gave us the name of our continent Europe and they founded Carthage with their fearless Hannibal ... and more than dozen cities in Spain alone ( Cádiz, Málaga, Alicante, Murcia, Mallorca, Menorca etc) , not to mention Portugal, Italy ( Sicily, Sardinia, Genoa, ) Malta, France, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria) .. the sea between Italy and Greece is called after the Phoenicians of Tyre ‘ il mare Tirreno’ because they had dozen port cities along that route...

[@jeremyhaines4481]

This is very interesting and informative

[@davidanderson9664]

Great film. Thank you. I went to Beirut about a dozen years ago and LOVED it. Even though there was a small war on! Thye've got some problems at the moment but generally I could live there. The people, the food, the nature, the beauty --- I (Heart) Lubnaan! D.A., NYC

[@hydrapilot4283]

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[@snowylim6818]

The building are speaking like a old man, undescribable spirit

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