More than 2,000 years ago, the Greeks gave the city of Jbeil the name Byblos, which was in use during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Byblos was then a rich city with a stone-paved main road flanked on both sides with colonnades adorned with Corinthian capitals. An underground piping system was constructed to drain rainwater. The path led to the public fountain of the city which had a theatre, public baths and temples.
