Stone Baalbek

Stone Baalbek

Stone Baalbek

Baalbek is the name of a town situated at an altitude of 1170 m, exactly in the Beka valley of the State of Lebanon, Stone Baalbek  is a stone rubble which was once a Roman temple, Stone Baalbek also thought to be the largest Roman temple ever existed. Baalbek is also starting a very famous after the discovery of the ruins of Stone Baalbek  is very impressive. 

Stone Baalbek

Same with the other stone buildings such as Stonehenge, the Borobudur Temple and building Coral Castle, Stone Baalbek  also save a lot of mystery that still can be solved, one of which is the way to build this temple is made up of stone weighing 1200 tons? but at that time there has been no heavy equipment that can lift objects weighing it. Baalbek's name comes from the word Ba'al is a god of the Phonecian, Ba'al is also the name of a town is located about 86 km from the capital city of Lebanon. 

greatest baalbek stone

At Baalbek is an ancient city inhabited by people Phonenician, but in about the year 323-64 BC when the Greeks began to enter and occupy the city of Baalbek, the Greeks change the name of the city became "Heliopolis", or when defined by the City of the Sun, at this time anyway that is, when the Greeks led by Julius Caesar or Julia Augusta Felix Heliopolitana colonia built many magnificent temples with stones that are very large, Julius Caesar built the Temple dedicated to the god Jupiter who is the god of the ancient Greeks. The temple building was built with stones so neatly with the size is very impressive and when using equipment today can not be used to lift the stones. To the south of Baalbek Stone also found a former quarrying and stone cutting place and there are also pieces of rock that the suspect was processed stones the largest ever built by man, the weight of the stone is even expected to reach more than about 1,500 tons.