The ''Mission de Phénicie'' was the first major archaeological mission to

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

and

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. It took place in 1860-61 by a French team led by

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote influe ...

. Renan was entrusted with the mission in October 1860, after French interest had been sparked by the 1855 discovery of the

Eshmunazar II sarcophagus The Eshmunazar II sarcophagus is a 6th-century BC sarcophagus unearthed in 1855 in the "Phoenician Necropolis", a hypogeum (underground tomb) complex in the southern area of the city of Sidon in modern-day Lebanon. The sarcophagus was discover ...

. The Phoenician artefacts and inscriptions that discovered by the mission were published in Renan's ''Mission de Phénicie'' (1864–74; “Phoenician Expedition”), published by Imprimerie impériale in

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1864, and republished by

Beyrouth Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of ...

in 1997.

Volumes

* Text

an

* Plates

an

Catalogue des objets provenant de la Mission de Phénicie

Bibliography

* 1864 non-fiction books Archaeology books {{NEast-archaeology-stub