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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.
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A detail from a 1911 map of Turkey in Asia, showing Baalbek's former rail connections. Baalbek was connected to the DHP, the French-owned railway concession in Ottoman Syria, on 19 June 1902. [146] It formed a station on the standard-gauge line between Riyaq to its south and Aleppo (now in Syria) to its north. [147]
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods.. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman-Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick from Joub Jannine II, Lebanon.
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" .
In Baalbek, in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, Hamza al Outa's home was one of around a dozen buildings destroyed in one neighbourhood alone. Twisted rebar poked out of piles of rubble ...
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]