Okay so the site of kamid El loz is richer than I thought I'm going to [briefly] talk about the bronze age only because it deserves its own thread.

The ancient city "kumid", known today as Kamid El loz, was mentioned 5 times in the royal archives of tell El Amarna in Egypt.
The city is located in the Beqaa valley and it was an essential milestone in the trans-regional route connecting the-

Mediterranean coast to Mesopotamia. The oldest pieces of evidence found are from the early bronze age ( 2000 B.C) and there is yet more to be dicsovered until the bed rock is reached.

During the first urban developments, the city had a palace, an administrative area, a temple ( that was later destroyed during the Lebanese civil war) and many residential areas.

Photos: Decorated pottery from the late bronze age
Stone-vessel inscribed with the personal name of the egyptian prince "prince Ra-Woser")

The palace was a known landmark; it contained 7 cuneiform texts referring to the politics in Byblos and uncover the dominance of Egypt on the Levant under the military campaigns of Thutmosis III ( 1486 - 1425 B.C).

( https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.academia.edu/12939142/On_Two_Tablets_from_K%25C4%2581mid_el-L%25C5%258Dz_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Studies_42_2005_pp._312-317&ved=2ahUKEwjRtY70o7HpAhU8ShUIHXRBBwYQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2tNBuL1t2yV6KRmC8pJi5z&cshid=1589388122326)

(Cuneiform tablet from palace P4, Late Bronze Age)

In the northern part of the palace, a treasure room was found known as the "schatzhaus" . It was a burial place for the elite, consisted of 3 rooms and a small vestibule built underground with no windows nor entry.

In one of the rooms, a skeleton of an 8 yo girl was found inhumated with several grave goods.
It included : golden jewelry, miniature face masks, scarabs and pearls, fragments of silver,  ivory boxes in the form of ducks.

Photo: Makeup box, kamid el-Loz, Late bronze age.

In the second grave chamber, two deceased were burried next to a sarcophagus like basin. Grave goods included: weapons made of bronze, scarabs, vessels, golden pendants, figurine made of silver and gold sheets, a figurine of a female lyrist made from ivory-

Pottery from Cyrus and Crete... 
Photos: female figurine of a lyrist made from ivory
Figurine made of silver and gold sheets

A ring with a cartouche of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmosis III was found, suggesting that the burials occurred during or after his reign.

Burials inside residential houses "demonstrated the importance of social bonds among population, even after death." ( M. Heinz)

The city burned down and was rebuilt 8 times during the bronze age.

From an architectural approach, the habitants and/or the new comers did not abandon the city and rebuilt the same buildings using the traditional techniques within the older layouts transfering the knowledge to future generations.

If you visit the site today, you'll find remnants of buildings , some of them burned,  remains of laid stone floors, installation like ovens and pottery shards scattered.

The treasures found by archeologists at kumidi were protected in Germany during World War II and now remain in the Beirut National Museum.

End of thread. If you reached here then thank you for reading and I'd be happy to give you more info (if interested )