11 December #ARUXmas: Mariam 🇱🇧

Where is the best Christmas tree in the world?

Mariam describes the amazing Christmas tree in Byblos, a city in the north of her home country #Lebanon 🇱🇧, which was nominated as the best Christmas tree in the world!
When we googled the tree, we also discovered some fun facts about Byblos:
1. Byblos is one of the 20 oldest cities in the world. It has been continuously inhabited since 5,000 B.C

2. Byblos was on the trade route where merchants exported papyrus from Egypt to Greece. Thanks to this, papyrus was given the early Greek name 'byblos'. 3. Hence the English word 'Bible' is derived from byblos as “the (papyrus) book.” Source: britannica.com/place/Byblos

#WeAreInternational #LebaneseChristmas
#byblos #christmascountdown

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Hello December and hello #ARUXmas!
25 days, 25 students, 16 countries, 1 video a day in the countdown to Christmas.
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