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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 ]
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 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]
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 ...
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]
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman - Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick ...
Qalaat Faqra is an archaeological site in Kfardebian, Lebanon, with Roman and Byzantine ruins. Located near the Faqra ski resort on the slopes of Mount Sannine at an altitude of 1500 m (and exactly half-way between Berytus and Heliopolis, the two main Roman cities in Roman Phoenicia), it is one of the most important sites of the UNESCO-listed valley of Nahr al-Kalb (the classical "Lycus river").