In this close up, we can see what appears to be a stone floor or road.
And slightly to the right there appear to be some pillars:
I was told this could be part of an aqueduct. Here is the second pillar, not visible in the above shot:
To the left of this area, there appeared to be room-like structures. Could they be Roman baths, housing or shops?
There was a rock structure in the lower center:
And a rock path to the right:
Could these be from different periods?
But all of this is just one corner of the site. Further ahead toward the center of the plot, there were burial mounds:
Here’s a wide of the entire site from another hole in the fence.
“The whole thing is like a city,” says Nouvel in the inscription below. “It will have its place alongside the markers and the monuments of past centuries on the visitors’ map of Beirut.”
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So will this project be amended to incorporate the ruins and truly “have a place alongside monuments of past centuries?” Or will developers simply seek to replace that heritage with a 5 star hotel?
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Could The Landmark Group object to the way the ruins are being destroyed? (If it has an impact for them of course, such as bad publicity.) What about a petition on Change.org asking The Landmark Group to insist that their local partner here allow archaeologists and university students in on the dig as you suggest?
Even if they are hell-bent on destroying the ruins themselves, perhaps things such as ceramics could be saved, and archaeologists could learn from the ruins prior to their elimination to fill in more pieces on Lebanon’s ancient history….