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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.
The layout of ancient Baalbek including the temple. The huge quarry nearby likely played into the Roman decision to create a huge "Great Court" of a big pagan temple complex in this mountain site, despite being located at 1,145 meters of altitude and lying on the remote eastern border of the Roman Empire.
Blocks Baalbek, Lebanon: Roman Empire: Plus about 24 blocks 300 tons each [24] 700 t each Colossi of Memnon (2×) Statues Thebes, Egypt: Ancient Egypt: Transported 420 miles (680 km) from el-Gabal el-Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) over land without using the Nile. [22] [25] 520 tons, 170 tons, and 160 tons Great Stele, King Ezana's Stele ...
"Baalbek is the major Roman site in Lebanon. You couldn't replace it if someone bombed it," says Graham Philip, an archaeology professor at Durham University. "It would be a huge loss.
Baalbek [a] (/ ˈ b ɑː l b ɛ k, ˈ b eɪ ə l b ɛ k /; [5] Arabic: بَعْلَبَكّ, romanized: Baʿlabakk; Syriac: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km (42 mi) northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. [6] In 1998, the city had a population of 82,608. [7]
An Israeli airstrike has destroyed an Ottoman-era building just a stone's throw from the UNESCO-listed temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, the closest Israel has come yet to striking one of ...
Israeli strikes killed 940 people and wounded another 1,520 in the Baalbek-Hermel region, said Bachir Khodr, its governor. This amounts to almost a quarter of the country-wide death toll announced ...
[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.