http://www.lonelyplanet.com/lebanon/beirut/history The right bank of the Beirut River, southwest of the mountain resort town of Beit Mery at an altitude of approximately 125 meters above sea level is an archeological site, "Beit Mery I," that was found by Jesuit Father Dillenseger who determined it to be an Acheulean site; the archaeological finds from the site were donated to the French Faculty of Medicine at the Saint Joseph University.