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A site very dear to my heart. The beautiful Bronze-Age Tell of Fadous-Kfarabida in northern #Lebanon 
. It is located 2km south of the modern city of #Batroun. Was discovered in 2004 by an archaeology graduate student strolling on his motorcycle through the Lebanese coast.(1/5)
. It is located 2km south of the modern city of #Batroun. Was discovered in 2004 by an archaeology graduate student strolling on his motorcycle through the Lebanese coast.(1/5)
A team of the American University of Beirut ( #AUB) conducted excavations between 2004 and 2016. The site (around 1.5 ha) is interpreted to be an administrative center probably falling under the hegemony of #Byblos (the main site in the region) rather than an ordinary town. (2/5)
Unique find No.1, a small bone beam for weighing precious commodities.
It's the only example attested in the Levant, and is also slightly earlier than the scale beams found in Anatolia and the Aegean (dated to the mid-3rd millennium BC). (3/5)
It's the only example attested in the Levant, and is also slightly earlier than the scale beams found in Anatolia and the Aegean (dated to the mid-3rd millennium BC). (3/5)
Find No.2, and of course a Bronze-Age burial.
A middle-aged women buried lying on her back and surrounded by a circle of medium-sized stones. She had a bad fracture on her left femur (healed though), which definitely needed specific treatment (correction and stabilization).(4/5)
A middle-aged women buried lying on her back and surrounded by a circle of medium-sized stones. She had a bad fracture on her left femur (healed though), which definitely needed specific treatment (correction and stabilization).(4/5)
And of course, our lovely team in 2016 under the directorship of the almighty Dr Hermann Genz. You can read all about the site by visiting Dr Genz' academia page: https://aub-lb.academia.edu/HermannGenz (5/5)
