Description
Title: Byblos: Its History, Ruins and Legends
Author: Maurice Dunand
Publisher: Librairie Adrien-Maisonneuve (Beirut / Paris)
First Edition: 1964
Length: 102 pages, illustrated with numerous black‑and‑white photos, maps, and archaeological plates
Translator: H. Tabet (English edition)
Maurice Dunand (1898–1987) was the long‑serving director of excavations at Byblos under the French Mandate and later the Lebanese Directorate of Antiquities. This booklet is essentially a concise, accessible synthesis of his decades of archaeological work at one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities.
