Beirut Central District
The Directorate General of Antiquites -
Interactive Archeological Map Of Beirut
Canaanite Bronze Age
3000 - 1200 BC
: Canaanite Jar Burial
A small girl died 3800 years ago in the Bronze Age fortified city
of Beirut. She was buried in a storage jar, wearing a necklace of gold and carnelian
beads and accompanied by other funerary offerings for afterlife. (AUB Museum excavations
1995)