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The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek.
A fourth, still larger stone called the Stone of the Pregnant Woman lies unused in the nearby quarry 800 m (2,600 ft) from the town [10] and weighs around 1,000 tonnes. [11] A fifth, weighing approximately 1,200 tonnes [12] lies in the same quarry.) Through the foundation there run three enormous passages the size of railway tunnels. [8]
Image Title: Colossal Hewn Block, Ancient Quarries Baalbek Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Approaching Baalbek from Damascus or the south, one comes first to the quarries of Baalbek. The colossal block is 71 feet long, 14 feet high, 13 feet wide, contains about 13,500 cubic feet, and would probably weigh, 1,500 tons.
"A documentation in stone of Acarina in the Roman Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, about 150 AD". Bull Ann Soc Ent Belgique. Jessup, Samuel. Ba'albek (Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt) Ed. Appleton & Co. New York, 1881 Lewis, Norman N. (1999). "Baalbek Before and After the Earthquake of 1759: The Drawings of James Bruce". Levant.
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Baalbek's tourism sector has encountered challenges due to conflicts in Lebanon, particularly the 1975–1990 civil war, the ongoing Syrian civil war since 2011, [9] [11] and the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present). [12] Baalbek is considered to be part of Hezbollah group's heartland [13] and is known to be their political stronghold. [14]
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