Jeanine Abdul Massih is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Conservation Technique at Lebanese University and currently fellow at the Excellence Cluster Topoi. In June 2014 she carried out excavations in the famous quarry of the “Hajjar al-Hibla” in Baalbek. During her fellowship she is completing the study of results of this as well as of former investigations of the quarry and contributes to the topic of  research group (B-2) XXL – Monumentalized knowledge.