Expo Hakel: Extracting Fossils from the Lebanese Mountains for Decades

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Anthony Rahayel
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In the heart of Hakel, Rizkallah Nohra founded the first fossils museum in Lebanon . The whole adventure began in 1960s when he was a seven years old boy, he started to gather some fossils from a land owned by his family, over the years this hobby turned into a passion, his dream was to create a museum for his collection but such project didn’t’ see the light due to the war that ended in 1991. Undeterred by such obstacles, he restored, on his own, a typical old Lebanese village house where he could gather and display all the fossils he had collected over the past thirty years. 1991 witnessed the opening of Expo Hakel the first natural history museum for marine fossils in Lebanon.
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Hakel’s specimens are preserved in lagerstatten, formed by a fine-grained (micritic), finely laminated plattentalk, the Hakel fossil layers have been defined as Cenomanian, 98 Million years. The limestone is well stratified, the color is also impressively variable from a pallid yellow to a brown-beige, to grey to near black. The limestone of this restricted area probably represents one of the richest deposits of fossil fish in the world. Mass mortality layers are relatively frequent; multiple fish slabs are regularly found in this locality. Fish are the most common fossils found in this area, but crustaceans, plants and echinoderms are also present.
The oldest written evidence about the Lebanese fossils dates back to the 4th century AC. Eusebe de Cesaree, Bishop of Palestine, evokes these stones and considers them as the witnesses of Noah’s deluge. The most famous mention of these sites is probably in 1248, where it is mentioned in the journal of Sire de Joinville, a traveling companion of Louis IX, states that during the king’s stay in Sidon , a stone containing “the shape of a sea fish” was presented to him. Later, numerous studies: French, Italian, German and American followed to publish scientific papers about the quarry and some of the species discovered.
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