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.

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Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park is a wonderful place and save the unsolved mysteries of the stone walk.Stone walk is a strange phenomenon that even you would not believe if you do not see the evidence directly, but in a dry lake named Racetrak Playa, The lake is located in California, United States. Walking stones contained in the lake is as yet be explained scientifically, a very popular theory about how to move the stone is a stone was moved because of blown by the wind, this theory is the most likely theory is based on the direction of the stone trail leading from the barracks toward the northeast, it means parallel to the direction of the wind that blows in Racetrack Playa, others revealed that the stone was moved by humans or animals, but this theory is very difficult to prove because the current run to move the rock in this lake mud in a very soft so if there is a good move this stone was supposed to leave an animal or human, or at least muddy footprints around the stone will be broken and the theory goes further to say that the stone was moved because of the ice, but this theory is still difficult to prove in scientific.

Death Valley National Park

Stone Walk went on a mystery because until now no one has ever seen this stone goes, if the theory of rock running because the wind is a theory that you believe you should think harder because of the stone that runs not only the stones are small but there is a stone walk which weighs hundreds of pounds. 

Death Valley National Park

Perhaps the stone walk will always be a mystery that is worthy to be discussed until now, the rock goes this is what makes Death Valley National Park became a favorite tourist destination is beautiful, amazing and full of mysteries waiting to be solved.

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