The megalithic sites of Menjez (Akkar, Lebanon)
UniGe Manager :
Dre Tara Steimer-Herbet
Student :
Meryl Defours
(PhD student) since january 2022
Partners : Ministry of Culture in Lebanon, Directorate General of Antiquities of Lebanon, Municipality of Menjez, Museum of Lebanese Prehistory
Funding : British Council (until 2019), University of Geneva, Fond National Suisse, Fondation Gandur
2017–2019 Promotion of the megalithic monuments of Menjez and creation of a permanent exhibition in the Maison du Patrimoine (Heritage House).
2021 Study mission on the engravings on the megalithic monuments of Menjez.
Since 2022 Co-direction by Dr Tara Steimer-Herbet and Dr Zuzanna Wygnanska for the MEG-A project. The MEG-A research project: The first megalith builders of the northern Levant. A multidisciplinary investigation of the archaeological landscape of Akkar (Lebanon, 4th-3rd millennia BCE) focuses on the first megalithic societies of the Levant, using the Akkar region as a case study (northern Lebanon).
