Kamid al lawz

Lebanon
Kamid al lawz, Lebanon
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Kamid al-Lawz, a village in Lebanon's western Bekaa district, sits above a Bronze Age archaeological site that was once among the largest Middle Bronze Age settlements known — referenced in ancient Egyptian sources and the Amarna documents as Koumidi. German university expeditions excavated the tell from the 1960s through the 1990s, uncovering a Late Bronze Age palace, two temples, workshops for bronze-working and jewellery, and a royal tomb containing over a thousand artefacts. The surrounding mountain also holds rock-cut tombs with Aramaic inscriptions.

  • Nearest water from center4.0 km
  • Nearest mountain from center1.1 km
  • UNESCO within 50 km2

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