Hermel الهرمل
Hermel Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°23′29″N 36°23′45″E / 34.39139°N 36.39583°E / 34.39139; 36.39583Coordinates: 34°23′29″N 36°23′45″E / 34.39139°N 36.39583°E / 34.39139; 36.39583
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Beqaa Governorate
District	Hermel District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Hermel (Arabic: الهرمل‎) is a Shia Muslim town in Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. It's the capital of the Hermel District. Hermel is home to a Lebanese Red Cross First Aid Center.^[1]

Hermel plains[link]

The Hermel plains are an area of low hills around Hermel, through which runs the Orontes river and several wadis, which drain into the Homs basin. The area dominates the north of the Beqaa Valley and reaches north to the border with Syria. A curious and unpublished archaeological industry exists from finds of stone tools in this area. It consists of generally small tools whose typology is limited. It was termed the Shepherd Neolithic industry by Henri Fleisch.^[2]

Hermel I (Mrah Abbas)[link]

Hermel I or Mrah Abbas was discovered by P. Billaux and Maurice Tallon and is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north northeast of Hermel, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) before reaching Mrah Abbas, next to the road. It is located on an uncultivated sloping plain leading down 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the Orontes. The garden revealed the remains of ten dolmens, most of which were built on a larger foundation than the covered chamber. Some were perhaps not covered by tumuli and a few were evidently not built to have cap-stones on top.^[3]

Hermel II (Jisr el Aassi)[link]

Hermel II or Jisr el Aassi is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of Hermel I near the gorge through which the Orontes river flows. It was found by P. Billaux and mentioned by Maurice Tallon in 1958 who made a lenghy description of the largest tumulus in 1959.^[4] The lithic industry at the site was discussed by Henri Fleisch in 1966.^[5] Several dolmens were found around the village of Choueighir, around 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of the bridge over the Orontes, in and around the village extending about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the north along the track next to the river. Some of the dolmen are inclined inwards forming a pyramid shape. There is a large tumulus north of the village that is composed of massive blocks where pottery was found and dated to the Early Bronze Age III by Tallon.^[4] Henri Fleisch found a collection of Shepherd Neolithic flints around these dolmen.^[3]

Hermel III (Choueighir)[link]

Hermel III or Choueighir is a village on the left (western) bank of the Orontes and an archaeological site was found by P. Billaux 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the north of it. Flint material was described to be of the Shepherd Neolithic type and similar to that of Maakne and el Qaa by Henri Fleisch in 1966, it is held in the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.^[3]

Hermel IV (Wadi el Joz)[link]

Hermel IV or Wadi el Joz is a collection of megaliths that are 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) east of Hermel Attika, southeast of Hermel on dry terraces that slope towards the channel of the Orontes. It was found by Mohammed Hamadé, surveyed by P. Billaux and published by Maurice Tallon in 1959.^[4] A number of tumuli were discovered in this area which covered chambers on rectangular foundation platforms. They were usually orientated east to west with some remnants of walls constructed of megalithic stones. Maurice Tallon made collectins of flint and pottery from the area dating to various periods. These included an incised sherd and a tanged scraper from the very earliest Neolithic times, an Early Bronze Age flat scraper along with later Middle Bronze Age and Iron Age material.^[3]

References[link]

v t e Archaeological sites in Lebanon Aadloun Aaiha Aammiq Ain Harcha Akbiyeh Amioun Amlaq Qatih Anjar, Lebanon Antelias cave Ard Saouda Ard Tlaili Arqa Baalbek Batroumine Batroun Bechamoun Beirut Beit Mery Bustan Birke Byblos Dahr El Ahmar Dakoue Deir El Aachayer Deir el Ahmar Dekwaneh Douris (Baalbek) Elaea (Lebanon) Hadeth south Haret ech Cheikh Hashbai Hermel plains Iaat Jabal es Saaïdé Jbaa Jdeideh Jebel Aabeby Jeita Grotto Joub Jannine Jieh Kamid al lawz Kaukaba Kefraya Kafr Tebnit Kfar Qouq Kfarhata Khallet Michte Kouachra megalith field Ksar Akil Labweh Lake Qaraoun (Ain Jaouze) Lion Tower Majdal Anjar Mansourieh Maronite mummies Mayrouba Moukhtara Mtaileb Nabi Zair Nachcharini Neba'a Faour Niha Bekaa Plain of Zgharta Qaraoun Ras Baalbek I Ras Beirut Ras El Kelb Sands of Beirut Sidon Sin el Fil Sarepta Stone of the Pregnant Woman Tahun ben Aissa Taire Tayibe Tell Ain Nfaikh Tell Ain Saouda Tell Deir Tell el-Burak Tell Khardane Tell Jisr Tell Mureibit Tell Neba'a Litani Tell Zenoub Tell Zeitoun Temple of Bacchus Temple of Eshmun Tlail megaliths Toron Tripolis (region of Phoenicia) Tyre Necropolis Tyre, Lebanon Wadi Boura Yanta Ain W Zain Zahlé

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Sara Carbonero
Born	(1984-02-03) 3 February 1984 (age 28) Corral de Almaguer, Toledo, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Television presenter and sports journalist

Sara Carbonero Arévalo^[1] (born 3 February 1984^[2] in Corral de Almaguer, Toledo) is a Spanish TV presenter for Telecinco and sports journalist.^[3]

Press controversy[link]

During the 2010 FIFA World Cup it was alleged that Carbonero, reporting during the match between Spain and Switzerland, had distracted Casillas, causing the unexpected Swiss victory.^[4][5] The allegations were made in the English press, originally by Graham Keeley of The Times and later repeated by several other English newspapers, prompting the Madrid-based Spanish newspapers El Mundo,^[6] El País^[7] and the popular sports daily Marca^[8] to all run articles suggesting that the claims were preposterous and untrue.^[9]

Questions were also raised about her journalistic integrity after she undertook to interview her boyfriend Casillas after the match. As a result of the controversy Carbonero in Spain became "one of the most photographed people of the World Cup".^[10]

Personal life[link]

In July 2009, Carbonero, the girlfriend of Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas, was voted "The Sexiest Reporter in the World"^[11] by FHM USA.^[5][12]

On March 14, 2012 the Spanish magazine Lecturas announced that Sara Carbonero was engaged to Iker Casillas.^[13]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sara Carbonero at the Internet Movie Database

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