Phoenician Slipways - Minet el Hosn

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Those were the Phoenician Slipways located in Minet el Hosn, commonly known as the Phoenician Port (actually, it is the technical part of the phoenician port of Beirut). It was discovered by a group of archaelogists directed by Hisham Sayegh from DGA in 2011, and destroyed on 26/06/2012.

Civil society activists and the Venus construction firm have been in a standoff for more than a year over the firm’s $500 million development project. The controversy reached a decisive turning point when several bulldozers demolished one of the oldest ports in the country.
Photos sources : 1st - Libnanews. 2nd - Raja Noujaim

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