Maqne

Maqne
مقنة
Maakne
Maqne is located in Lebanon
Maqne
Maqne
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°4′40″N 36°12′31″E / 34.07778°N 36.20861°E / 34.07778; 36.20861
Country Lebanon
GovernorateBaalbek-Hermel
DistrictBaalbek
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Maqne I, Tell Maqne
Alternative nameMaakne I, Tell Maakne
LocationBeqaa Valley, Lebanon
TypeSurface site & Tell
Part ofType site
History
PeriodsShepherd Neolithic, Early Bronze Age, Ancient Rome
Site notes
Excavation dates1957
ArchaeologistsM. Billaux, Maurice Tallon, Henri Fleisch
Conditionruins,
Public accessYes
Shepherd Neolithic flint tools discovered at Kamouh el Hermel. 1. End scraper on a flake. 2. Transverse scraper and awl on a thin flake. 3. Borer on a flake blade. 4. Burin with a wide working edge on a heavy flake. All in matt brown flint.

Maqne or Maakne (Arabic: مقنة) is a town and municipality in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.[1]

  1. ^ L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon, p. 44 & 74. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

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