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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]
The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman [1] worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled in antiquity. How the stones were moved from where they were quarried to their final locations is uncertain.
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.
The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. [1] The temple complex is considered an outstanding archaeological and artistic site of Imperial Roman Architecture and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. [1]
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 ...
Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek Roman temple of Qsarnaba, near Zahle, Lebanon The column of Iaat in the Beqaa valley, probably a Roman shrine. In the first century the Temples started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous ""Monoliths".
The Hotel Palmyra is a historic establishment in Baalbek, Lebanon.Located in front of the ancient Roman ruins, the hotel's interiors, with their antiquated mahogany furniture, relics from the Baalbek ruins and green ostrich skin lampshades, bear memories of a great past, when it hosted politicians and artists.
Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus (IOMH, also Jupiter Heliopolitanus) was a syncretic supreme god venerated in the great temple of Baalbek, in modern-day Lebanon.The cult of Jupiter Heliopolitanus evolved from the ancient Canaanite religion, particularly the worship of the storm and fertility god Baal-Hadad.