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| BAALBEK MEGALITHS
In the middle
course of the masonry of the outer wall of the Acropolis at Baalbek (where
Hezbullah now have a terrorist training facility) in The Lebanon, there are
three great stones each measuring 63 ft. long by thirteen feet high by 10ft.
thick. Baalbek is located about halfway between Beirut and Damascus
The Acropolis is supposed to have been a Roman Temple dedicated to the god
Jupiter-Baal, but no classical scholar has yet been able to explain how three
massive cut stones could have been lifted to rest on a substructure 23ft. high.
Neither Bechtel nor the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the leading experts on
heavy lifting and moving can do that feat today even with the most sophisticated
machinery. Each stone after all weighs in the region of 1,200 tons.
Even more puzzling is the largest cut-stone known to exist anywhere which is
found in the quarry within sight of the Acropolis, about half a mile away. This
quarry was presumably the origin of the massive stones in place in the
Acropolis. This stone is 68ft. long and
roughly 14 ft. square. Its enormity can be judged by noticing the small figure
of a man sitting on its top with his friend just below and slightly to the
right.
The challenge is clear. Who and what can move any of these stones today and
more importantly how were they moved in the first place?
UPDATE:
1) The site is now open to tourists and those who have been there report very
favorably about the safety of the area.
2) Another very large megalith has been discovered and we hope to have a
photograph very soon.
© Michael S. Sanders
1989
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