- 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.
- 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.
- The Stone of the Pregnant Woman before its current excavation. The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon...
- Deep within the annals of ancient history lies the enigmatic Baalbek Trilithon, a colossal testament to ancient architecture and the embodiment of cryptic codes...
- 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...
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- But the very core of Baalbek (a giant masonry from Trilithon and several dozen blocks of 300-400 tons) was erected much earlier.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Effectively hidden beneath the massive Roman Temple of Jupiter-Baal is the Baalbek “trilithon,” the feature for which the site is most famous today.
