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The layout of ancient Baalbek including the temple. The huge quarry nearby likely played into the Roman decision to create a huge "Great Court" of a big pagan temple complex in this mountain site, despite being located at 1,145 meters of altitude and lying on the remote eastern border of the Roman Empire. [3]
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.
[3] In 1984 the ruins at Baalbek were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] Preservation of the site began in the 1990s following the end of the war. The German Archaeological Institute's Orient Department has done a number of archaeological excavations and research on The Temple of Bacchus and the entire temple complex. [4]
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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An Israeli airstrike has destroyed an Ottoman-era building just a stone's throw from the UNESCO-listed temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, the closest Israel has come yet to striking one of ...
[3] [4] The most notable of the temples of Venus, Bacchus and Jupiter at Baalbek were thoroughly studied by Paul Collart and Pierre Coupel. [5] [6] Ten sacred sites were also documented by Daniel Krencker and Willy Schietzschmann in 1938. [7] Maurice Tallon published an itinerary of the sanctuaries in 1967 with details of the paths to reach ...
The Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek. The ancient Roman ruins of Baalbek; Temples of the Beqaa Valley, a collection of shrines and Roman temples; Tomb of Khawla, alleged shrine of Khawla the daughter of Husayn ibn Ali; The Umayyad ruins of Anjar; Our Lady of Bekaa, a Marian shrine; The Aammiq Wetland habitat for birds and butterflies