Byblos Wax Museum

Byblos Wax Museum

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.

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.

External links

* [http://impressions-ba.com/features.php?id_feature=10438 Byblos info]
* [http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/lebanon/index.html Lebabon/Byblos website]


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