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Situated in 2.000 to 2.500 meters high on the western slopes of Mount Lebanon, the Cedars of Jaj are the last remnants of the once-vast Cedar forests of the "Land of Nega" – which reached as far south as the source of the Adonis river at Afqa (Adonis Cave) – of the Phoenicians kings of Byblos*. From these trees came the wood for the solar boats, coffins, and mummification compounds of the ancient Egyptians of the earliest dynasties.

They were accessible and easy to transport to the coast. off the beaten track and forgotten in the midst of uninhabited mountain peaks. they were probably floated down the Adonis and Fidar streams south of Byblos and moved by sea to the harbor.