(Please read from the start)
This should go to every person from all the nationalities, but mostly the Lebanese, since we are talking about the Kamouh. Your behavior shows = projects whom you are. If you act dirty and nasty, it means you are dirty and nasty on the inside. The only monuments that were vandalized and I didn’t feel bad about it was that of Albert Pike and the Georgia stones. It’s not right to say this, but darn it, when I saw those 2 vandalized; I felt better.
I hope the people of Lebanon in general and the people of Hermel specifically will get the proper education to make them respect their national monuments. The authorities and the people in charge in Hermel should work on this A.S.A.P.
Something said in this paragraph is important = the Kamouh was built on a hill top, in a very strategic place. As I’ve said before, I’ve been there twice. And I stood at that hill top and I looked back at the Beqaa valley. You can see for many kilometers around. And when I turned to the North-East (approximately) you can see inside of Syria, beyond the border.
The notable and strategic location of the Kamouh put us in the mindset of it being a geographical marker = as in this being some type of milestone or a territorial marker informing the traveler it reached a specific location. We also think it has built on that hill top to be seen from far away; which enables travelers to get directions and know where they are while traveling. The decoration on the outer walls of the Kamouh is there to indicate that we reached a certain territory = a milestone telling us we reached hunting territory. But we couldn’t figure out to which civilization built this. Despite some similarities with the Mesopotamian civilizations, there aren’t any indications helping us to be a 100% certain about the Kamouh identity.
This is what we used to think the Kamouh is = some type of geographical marker to indicate a territory and in the same time a marker to guide travelers during their journey. Double function.
“Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site
Evidence was found of a Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site in the area around the monument, on the south and west of the hill. The site was discovered and a collection of flint tools used during the Neolithic Revolution was made by Lorraine Copeland and Frank Skeels in 1965. Materials recovered included blade-butts with scraping edges or notches, borers, cores (one with a twin edge) and small flakes. Some pieces were vaguely bifacial. The flints found were in a grey or chocolate-brown colour with some having a shiny patina.”
>> Makes you wonder how old the site is and whom really lived there, doesn’t it?
As if the Kamouh wasn’t a riddle of its own, there is also another mystery on the decoration. There is no question what we see on the outer walls of the Kamouh are hunting scenes and the description given just earlier about them is correct. Along with the animals, we also see weapons, like spears and hunting gears, like the nets (pointing to them with green arrows – picture in next page. What no one can understand or is able to correctly identify what it is in the first place, is the object that I’ve put in red rectangles.
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