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The Stone of the Pregnant Woman before its current excavation. The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman [1] worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled in antiquity. How the stones were moved from where they were quarried to their final locations is uncertain. [2]
This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites . [ 1 ]
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Indiana, in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
[3] In 1984 the ruins at Baalbek were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] Preservation of the site began in the 1990s following the end of the war. The German Archaeological Institute's Orient Department has done a number of archaeological excavations and research on The Temple of Bacchus and the entire temple complex. [4]
After the 2006 war, conservation work at Lebanon's historic sites began in October that year. [176] The ruins at Baalbek were not directly hit by Israeli bombing but the effects of blasts during the conflict toppled a block of stones at the Roman ruins and existing cracks in the temples of Jupiter and Bacchus were feared to have widened. [176]
Remains of ancient altars and inscribed marble slabs were discovered underwater Archaeologists uncover ruins of 2,000 year old temple built by ancient civilisation featured in Indiana Jones Skip ...
The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. [2] The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". [3] [4] Tyre is the fifth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. [5]
Ancient cemeteries in Lebanon (3 P) Archaeological sites in Nabatieh Governorate (1 P) B. Berytus (1 C, 9 P) Bronze Age sites in Lebanon (24 P) I.