Newly Open Access Journal: Archaeology & History in Lebanon: AHL

The Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum is a private philanthropic association established in London as a trust in 1993. It was created with the aim of raising funds and providing technical support for the Beirut National Museum at a time when the museum needed it most. LBFNM’s philanthropic efforts began with the rehabilitation of the museum’s Conservation Laboratory, purchase from the British Museum. Among other activities, LBFNM helped organize the first post-civil war exhibition held at the National Museum, Uprooted Heritage; and coordinated the exhibition Beirut: Uncovering the past, which opened at the British Museum in March 1996 and lasted six months before travelling to the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.

Since 1995, LBFNM has been publishing the journal Archaeology and History in Lebanon (formerly National Museum News), which covers a variety of current topics on Lebanon’s cultural history and archaeological past. Other publication projects include the museum’s most recent catalogue Stones and Creed (1999) and A Decade of Archaeology and History in the Lebanon (2004).

ISSUE 3		Table of contents
CAMILLE ASMAR	Dismantling the concrete caissons in the Beirut National Musuem
CAROLE MENDLESON	Beirut (Uncovering the Past)
DOMINIC PERRIN & TIM WILLIAMS	Archeological work on the Souks Site, Beirut Central District
MAY DAVIE	Bayrout Al Qadimat (une ville arabe et sa banlieue à la fin du XVIIIème siècle)
JEAN LAUFFRAY	Jean Lauffray and the Lebanon
NEWS	(Latest Events and Publications)
PHILIPPE MARQUIS	Les Fouilles du Centre-Ville de Beyrouth
RICHARD BARNES	Photos-Essay (Beirut Archaeologies)
VRONWY HANKEY	A middle minoan cup from the Kharji Cemetery, Beirut
ISSUE 4		Table of contents
CAMILLE ASMAR	Directorate General of Antiquities programme of reconstruction (the Latest Developments)
CLAUDE DOUMET SERHAL	Fleurs, fruits et huile parfumée (Représentation sur les sarcophages anthropoides)
FARES EL-DAHDAH	Inert atmosphere cases
HANNA El BANNA-CHIDIAC	BEIRUT, Uncovering the Past (BEYROUTH, le Temps Retrouvé)
JEREMY LEACH	An Inspiration from Beit Shebab Lebanon
MUHAMAD TOUFIC RIFAI	Latest News on excavations in the Lebanon
ODILE WATTEL-de-CROIZANT	Les amours des dieux sur les mosaiques du Musée National de Beyrouth
VRONWY HANKEY	A middle minoan cup from the Kharji Cimetery
ISSUE 5		Table of contents
ALI BADAWI	The Basins and aqueduct of Ras-el-Ain near Tyre
ANDREA RESEK	Latest News from the Directorate General of Antiquities
ANTONIA CIASCA	Phoenician archaeology yesterday and today
CAMILLE ASMAR	Histoire des collections du Musée National de Beyrouth (la Collection Ford)
FEDERIQUE ALPI	L'épigraphie grecque et latine au Liban (panorama historique)
HANI ABDEL-NOUR & AGNES ROUSSEAU	Le Musée des Poissons Fossiles de Byblos
MUNTAHA SAGHIEH BEIDOUN	Evidence of earthquake in the current excavations of Beirut City Center
TRACY SWEEK	National Museum of Beirut (the conservation of the sculpture and stone objects)
UWE FINKBEINER	Fortifications of Prehellenistic Beirut, the archaeological Site BEY 020
ISSUE 6		Table of contents
ALI BADAWI	News, Sites & Archaeological Excavations (Tyr)
ANIS CHAYA	News, Sites & Archaeological Excavations (Chroniques du Liban-Nord 1997)
ANNE-MARIE MAILA-AFEICHE	Musée National de Beyrouth (Retrospective des principales manifestations 1993-1997)
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL, ANNE-MARIE MAILA-AFEICHE, FARES el DAHDAH & ANNE RABATE	News, New Release
HANS H. CURVERS	Beirut Central District Infrastructure Archaeology, 1996
JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE	Projet, Musée National de Beyrouth 1997
JOUMANA NAKHLE & SAMAR KARAM	News, Sites & Archaeological Excavations (Khenchara)
MARLIES HEINZ	News, Sites & Archaeological Excavations (Tell Kamid el-Loz)
RENE HUYGHE	Un Musée National d'antiquités et des Beaux-Arts à Beyrouth
SARAH JENNINGS	Glass Vessels from the Souk excavations in Beirut BEY006
SUZY HAKIMIAN	Le Musée National de Beyrouth Renaissance (à partir du 25 novembre 1997)
TANIA ZAVEN	News, Sites & Archaeological Excavations (Beqaa)
ISSUE 7		Table of contents
ANNE-MARIE MAILA-AFEICHE	An exhibition at the National Museum (Sulla Rotte dei Fenici)
CAMILLE ASMAR	Beirut National Museum (Project for the opening of its upper gallery)
CHRIS G. CUMBERPATCH	Approaches to the archaeology of Beirut
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Le Costume à l'égyptienne au Musée de Beyrouth (à propos de 3 sculptures en ronde-bosse)
EVELYNE CHANTRIAUX-VICARD	Les mosaiques du Musée National (quelques aspects du programme de restauration)
JEAN-PAUL REY-COQUAIS	Inscriptions greques et latines au Musée National de Beyrouth
JEAN-PAUL REY-COQUAIS	Modifications de certaines lectures et traductions dans Pierres et Croyances (100 Objets sculptés des Antiques du LIBAN)
ROLF A. STUCKY	Le sanctuaire d'Echmoun à Sidon
SARAH JENNINGS	Glass Vessels from the Souk Excavations in Beirut-BEY006
TOMASZ WALISZEWSKI, LEVON NORDIGUIAN & RENATA TARAZI	Mission Archéologique à Shhim
ISSUE 8		Table of contents
HONOR FROST	Byblos "Wen-Amon's Harbour"
ISABELLE SKAF	The National Museums Conservation Laboratory (activities & achievements)
JEAN-PAUL THALMANN	Les Défenses Byzantines & Médievales de Tell Arqa
JENS HANSSEN	Ottoman archaeology, Imperial discourses & the discovery of the Alexander Sarcophagus in Saida in 1887
MARGARETE VAN ESS	Heliopolis - Baalbeck research in ruins 1898
ROBERT MERRILLEES	Vronwy Hankey (Obituary)
VALERIE MATOIAN	LIBAN, L'autre Rive (évocation du patrimoine libanais a l'Institut du Monde Arabe)
ISSUE 17		Table of contents
ABDALLAH ALA'EDDINE	Hellenistic stamped amphorae from Beirut (site code BEY004)
ANNE RABATE	Book Review
CATHERINE AUBERT	Les amphores greques de Beyrouth à l'époque héllenistique
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Jars from the 1st Millennium BC at Tell El Rachidieh (South of Tyre)
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Jars from the 2nd Millennium BC at Sidon
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Jars from the 2nd Millennium BC at Tell el Ghassil (Bekaa Valley)
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Jars from the 3rd Millennium BC at Sidon
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL & DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	Middle Bronze Age jars from Lebanon
DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	Petrographic Analysis of Middle Bronze Age Burial Jars from Sidon
DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	Petrographic Analysis oN Pottery from Tomb IV at Tell el Rachidieh
ELISABETH BETTLES	Carinated-shoulder amphorae from Sarepta, Lebanon
IBRAHIM KAWKABANI	Les anses timbrées de Jal el-Bahr
JEAN-PAUL THALMANN	Transporter et conserver (Jarres de l'Age du Bronze à Tell Arqa)
PAUL REYNOLDS	Amphorae in roman Lebanon 50 BC to AD 250
PIERRE BORDREUIL	A propos des jarres inscrites de Tell el Rachidieh
RAYMOND GEZE	1ère découverte d'une industrie lithique oldowayenne dans le Mont Liban
SOURAILLA JABAK-HTEIT	Les jarres de l'époque perse du Site BEY 010
ISSUE 18		Table of contents
BETTINA BADER	The egyptian jars from Sidon in their egyptian context
CHRISTOPHE MORHANGE, KATHIA ESPIC, CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL, MICHEL BOURCIER & PIERRE CARBONEL	The ancient harbours of Sidon attempt at a synthesis (1998-2002)
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	SIDON - British Museum Excavations 1998-2003
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Weapons from the Middle Bronze Age burials at Sidon
E. RIBES, D. BORSCHNECK, C. MORHANGE & A. SANDLER	Recherche de l'origine des argiles du bassin portuaire antique de Sidon
ELENI ASOUTI & DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	Identification of the wood used in the construction of the "Sunken Room" at Sidon
EMMANUELLE VILA	Animal bone deposits under Sidon's Minoan Cup
GAEL LE ROUX, ALAIN VERON & CHRISTOPHE MORHANGE	Geochemical evidences of early anthropogenic activity in harbour sediments from Sidon
GAEL LE ROUX, ALAIN VERON, CHRISTIAN SCHOLZ & CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Chemical and isotopical analyses on weapons from the Middle Bronze Age in Sidon
HENRI CHARLES LOFFET	Examination of several scarabs from Sidon 2002 season of Excavations
IBRAHIM KAWKABANI	La pseudo-tribune d'Echmoun d'après un témoignage oculaire
JEAN-PAUL REY-COQUAIS	Readers React
JOSEPH ALEXANDER MacGILLIVRAY	A middle minoan cup from Sidon
MAY DAVIE	Le Bourj Ali (d'une Tour de garde à un palais damascène turquisant de Saida du XVIIIe siècle)
NICOLAS CARAYON	l'Ile de Ziré à Saida (Nouvelles données archéologiques)
PIERRE BORDREUIL	Two inscribed sherds from Sidon
ISSUE 19		Table of contents
ANNE RABATE	Le Memorial du Liban, Tome 1, du Mont-Liban à l'Indépendance, 1841-1943
CHARLES I. ABOU-CHAAR	Medicinal Plants of Lebanon
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	Sidon : a Jar with fish or dolphin decoration
CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL	The Palm Tree motif in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (Evidence from Sidon and Tell Rechidieh)
DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	The Fabric of a ceramic jar from Sidon decorated with fish or dolphins
DOMINIQUE CARDON	Le mystère résolu du Kermès
EMMANUELLE VILLA	The fauna of Early Bronze Age Sidon
GEORGES TOHME & HENRIETTE TOHME	Recherches sur le statut actuel des plantes endémiques du Liban
HENRY C. LOFFET	Sur quelques espèces d'arbres de la zone syro-palestinienne et libanaise exportées vers l'Egypte pharaonique
HONOR FROST	Plants on ships (Dunnage, decoration and perishable cargoes)
NICK MARRINER, JACQUES-LOUIS DE BEAULIEU & CHRISTOPHE MORHANGE	Note on the vegetation landscapes of Sidon and Tyre during Antiquity
NIGEL HEPPER	An introduction to plants in archaeology
ISSUE 20		Table of contents
ALAN OGDEN	Burials excavated at Sidon 2001-2003
ALAN OGDEN	Sidon, Burial 27 Skeletal Report
ALAN VERON & GAEL LE ROUX	Provenance of silver artefacts from Burial 27 at Sidon
	Animal bone deposit under Sidon's Minoan Cup - C14 analysis
CHRISTA MLINAR	Sidon. Scarabs from the 2001 season of excavation (additional notes)
CLAUDE DOUMET SERHAL	Warrior Burial 27 at Sidon
DENYS PRINGLE	A crusader chapel in the hippodrome of Tyre
ELENI ASOUTI & DAFYDD GRIFFITHS	Two fragments of wood from Burial 27
EMMANUELLE VILA	Note on the skeletal remains from warrior burial 27 at  sidon (Faunal material)
HANI ABDUL-NOUR & FADI BEAYNO	Un vestige historique peu connu : la carrière souterraine de Moussaitbé à Beyrouth
HANS H. CURVERS & BARBARA STUART	Qalat Tibnin (Archaeology for a future conservation plan)
HENRY C. LOFFET	Sur quelques espèces d'arbres de la zone syro-palestinienne et libanaise exportées vers l'Egypte pharaonique (II)
MAY DAVIE	Le Bourj Ali, d'une tour de garde à un palais Damascène turquisant de Saida du XVIIIème siècle (complément)
ROLF A. STUCKY, HANS-PETER MATHYS & RUDOLF WACHTER	A new greek word from the Sanctuary of Eshmun at Sidon
STEPHAN WEBER & RALPH BODENSTEIN	A House and the City
TINE BAGH	Levantine Painted Ware from the Middle Bronze Age tombs at Sidon
VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS	Phoenician Studies in the Mediterranean (Looking Ahead)