Abstract
Beirut--It's been almost 15 years since Lebanon's bloody civil war came to an end with the Taif Accord. In that time much of the country has been rebuilt with new roads, buildings and infrastructure emerging in all the major cites, especially the capital. Yet as important as the reconstruction has been for Lebanese citizens of the past-or rather what it tells us about the people that lived in this land thousands of years ago. As buildings have been torn down and foundations dug for new edifices countless archaeological sites have been found, revealing new facts and confirming already-known theories about the nation's past. Now for the first time all the postwar archaeological discoveries have been collected in a new book published by the Lebanese-British Friends of the National Museum with the aid of Byblos Bank, ADIR, Assurances Banques Popularies Francaises and the Philippe Jabre Assiociation.