Byblos Wax Museum
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File:Cadmus Phoenician Alphabet.jpg
Sculpture of Cadmus writing the Phoenician alphabet
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Sculpture of Akhwat Shanay, Poet Bustany, Emir Bashir Shihab II and Ibrahim Pasha
File:Gibran Khalil Gibran.jpg
Sculpture of Gibran Khalil Gibran
The Byblos Wax Museum is a wax museum in Byblos, Lebanon. This museum displays wax statues and life scenes from the Phoenician era to the modern times.
[edit] Some of the wax figures
- Cadmus
- Europa
- Adonis
- Ashtarout
- Ahiram
- Fakhreddine II
- Bashir Shihab II
- Ibrahim Pacha
- Akhwat Shanay
- Gibran Khalil Gibran
- Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
- Bechara El Khoury
- Adil Osseiran
- Riad Solh
- Sabah
- Simon Asmar
- Rafik Hobeika
Some of the nationalists that the Martyrs' Square is named after:
- Abdul Karim al-Khalil
- Abd el-Wahab al-Inglizi
- Father Joseph Hayek
- Joseph Bishara Hani
- Mohammad and Ahmad Mahmassani
- Omar Hamad
- Philip and Farid el-Khazen
- Sheikh Ahmad Tabbara
In addition, there are statues of public figures depicting Phoenicians manufacturing glass, building ships and producing purple dye, and a Lebanese wedding in the village.
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