THE CLEANUP OF BYBLOS is set to begin soon and needs to be completed before winter in order to avoid permanent harm to the site:

Cleanup to Start at Old Sites in Lebanon
By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer
2:00 PM PDT, October 4, 2006

BYBLOS, Lebanon -- Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war -- a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.

Tens of thousands of dollars from European and other donors will go toward repairing the damage at the three sites -- first at this ancient Phoenician port city whose history stretches back 7,000 years, then to Roman ruins at Baalbek and Roman-era frescos in Tyre.

But officials say they also worry that many other historic sites, such as old souks, or markets, not listed by UNESCO as World Heritage sites, also were damaged and are getting less attention.

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