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Temple of the Obelisks
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Temple of the Obelisks

Ruins · Lebanon

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
34.119, 35.647
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: The Temple of the Obelisks (French: Temple aux Obelisques, Arabic: معبد الأنصاب, romanized: Maʿbad al-ʾAnṣāb, also known as the L-shaped Temple and Temple of Resheph was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos.

History

The Temple of the Obelisks (French: Temple aux Obelisques, Arabic: معبد الأنصاب, romanized: Maʿbad al-ʾAnṣāb, also known as the L-shaped Temple and Temple of Resheph was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos. It is considered "perhaps the most spectacular" of the ancient structures of Byblos. It is the best preserved building in the Byblos archaeological site.

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