• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Monolithic stones in Baalbek, Lebanon. The Stone of the Pregnant Woman before its current excavation.
  • Once again, it does not require much of an open mind to accept that the placement of the foundation stones at Baalbek was not the work of primitive humans.
  • Adding to the list, there is still no explanation behind the ruins of the ancient Baalbek Temple, which consists of over 800 tonnes of stone blocks.
  • Baalbek is the name of an archaeological site in Lebanon. In Roman times it was known as Heliopolis or City of the Sun. ... baalbek_second_stone.
  • Heliopolis at Baalbek – The upper stone re-constructions were done by the Romans, but the lower 1000 ton stone bricks forming the original foundation...
  • The mountains to the east are very near the town. Richard Pococke - A Description of the East and Some Other Countries - 1745 Baalbek is the triumph of stone.
  • The stones used for the construction of the temple platform at Baalbek stand on record as the largest known quarried, cut-stones in prehistory (Three of which are...
  • Because the great stones of Baalbek are similar, though far larger, than the stones of the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, archaic myths had arisen that Solomon...
  • The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism...
  • Baalbek scholar Friedrich Ragette, in his 1980 work entitled, simply, Baalbek, suggests that such huge stones were used because 'according to Phoenician...