Shouf, Lebanon ... After all, cedar trees have a fond place in Lebanese history as well as in the center of the country's flag. Their soft, light wood was highly prized in the ancient world ...

The trees are also a symbol of fertility, and regarded as the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. They symbolise purity and protection, and it is a Jewish tradition to burn cedar branches at New ...

named after a massacre of the cedar and juniper trees that lined the area, cut down in the 1940s to build a railway between Lebanon and Syria. Area residents cut down the junipers to use their ...

The Cedar of Lebanon in Olmsted-Beil House Park is one of the trees remaining on the property that was once on the farm of Frederick Law Olmsted, who began his career as an experimental wheat farmer.

Fully 95 percent original, the wood of Khufu's boat is conifer, probably cedar of Lebanon. Having few large trees of their own besides Nile acacia and tamarisk, the ancient Egyptians had imported ...

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Baalbek is an ancient city in Lebanon that first began as ... Today, the Kadisha Valley is home to the Cedars of God - the last group of trees of the once great forest of Cedars of Lebanon.

Its scope runs far beyond Farmer’s five “venerable species” (cedar ... even though many trees have ways of healing over superficial wounds, ancient trees and the cultural histories they ...

Meru - Cedar trees once surrounded the Mt Kenya ecosystem in Central Kenya, but they're dwindling away. Kenya's ancient cedar forests have been severely depleted due to centuries of logging.

The ancient bristlecone ... combined. Trees populate humans’ landscapes and language: five of the 20 most common street names in America are trees (oak, pine, maple, cedar, elm).