It is 270 m above sea level and 88 kilometres to the south-west of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about an hour and a half, and 15 km from the center of its district Tyre.

It succeeded an ancient locality; for I see here and there several ashlars and a small Corinthian capital in white marble embedded in the wall of a private house, which, I was told, were found on the spot.

"[9] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "Mud and stone village, containing about 200 Metawileh, built on the side of a hill, with figs and arable land around.

"[10] Maaroub was once home to a collection of old houses constructed using traditional methods that markedly differ from contemporary building practices.

The conventional technique involved the application of a mixture known as "Madlakeh", consisting of dirt and mud shaped into stones.