• The Trilithon is a group of three large stone blocks that were part of the Temple of Jupiter at the ancient site of Baalbek in Lebanon.
  • ...smallest three are part of a podium wall in the Roman complex of the Temple of Jupiter Baal (Heliopolitan Zeus) on Tel Baalbek and are known as the "Trilithon".
  • The Atlas Obscura Podcast is a short, daily celebration of all the world’s strange and wondrous places. Check out this episode about the Baalbek Trilithon.
  • Deep within the annals of ancient history lies the enigmatic Baalbek Trilithon, a colossal testament to ancient architecture and the embodiment of cryptic codes...
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  • These three collosal stones are situated in the wall and the remainings of the great acropolis of Baalbek, the Temple of Jupiter, in the Libanon built by the...
  • Le transport et la mise en oeuvre des megaliths,” Syria 54:1-2 (1977): 31-63 (English translation: “Concerning the trilithon of Baalbek: Transportation and the...
  • But the very core of Baalbek (a giant masonry from Trilithon and several dozen blocks of 300-400 tons) was erected much earlier.
  • A few years ago, I ran across a photo showing the trilithon in Baalbek, Lebanon. Three stones were moved onto a stone podium, and these limestones measured...
  • Baalbek Trilithon. ... Jewish historian Josephus (1st century) recalls Alexander the Great’s passage through Baalbek on his march to Damascus.
  • So it is with the stones of Baalbek. These great blocks of stone, and three in particular named the trilithon, may be the largest ever carved from the landscape in...
  • After the time of Solomon, the Phoenicians became masters of Syria and chose the site of Baalbek for a temple to their Sun-god Baal-Hadad.
  • The stones of Baalbek have engrossed academics for decades. Home to the largest megaliths ever quarried, how did the Romans move them?