Mount Haramoun is situated in the southern extremity of the East chain of Mount Lebanon, it caries several names, certain named it "Jabal Al Sheikh " because of its top is covered by snow, others "Tor Thalja " and in the old testament, the canticle of canticles, it is  named "  the Tower of Lebanon " .  The sidoniens gave it the name of "Mount Sirion " , while for the Amorites it was the "Mount Senir " . Mount Haramoun has three summits covered with snow throughout the year; the altitude of the highest summit is of 2814 meters. Today Mount Haramoun is barren but in older days it was covered with trees of all kinds, specially the cypresses. There, also you find ruins of temples, which were devoted to the god Baal. Some historians say that on this mountain took place the Transfiguration of J.C.
      In the first century after J.C., Flavius Josephus the writer confirms that Mount Haramoun is the "Jabal Al Sheikh” and was named Mount Lebanon. The river called Jordan takes his source from the Mount Haramoun.  Guillaume (1130-1186) the Bishop of Tyre (Sour) asserts that the river of the Jordan has two sources in Mount Haramoun; one named   « Your » the other one named   « Dan » and from this came the word Jordan.  The writers and Arabic poets mentioned that this river is the elder son of Lebanon, it does not end in the sea but in three lakes the first one is the lake Hula, the second one the Lake Tiberias or Sea of Galilee and the third one the Dead Sea, which is not a sea but a lake. In the Texts of Ugarit, in the epopee Baal and Anat   Mount Haramoun is mentioned (six column, line 19): « To Sirion (Haramoun) and its beautiful cedars.  »
      Latin historian Quintus Curcius wrote in the 1st century after J.C.,  that they used wood from Lebanon and specially Mount Haramoun for the construction of towers and boats. While comparing between the writings of the Greek historian Plutarque and of Quintus Curcius, we notice that Mount Haramoun exists since centuries and until our days it belongs to Lebanon.