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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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Byblos is a town located north of the Lebanon about 40 kms from Beirut, named Gubla in cuneiform texts and Gebal in the Bible. Founded around 5,000 a. d. C., the legend says that by Crono, is the subject of archaeological investigation since the beginning of the 20th century with numerous and ancient architectural monuments, it has been declared by Unesco in 1984 city patrimony of the humanity. The name of Byblos seems to Papyrus, byblos in Greek, whose marrow interlaced and crushed plant were made and sheets of papyrus that was written and painted in the past are made which are traded, and with cedar wood and copper of the Caucasus

  



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