The earliest section of the Baalbek remains fits no known civilization and was originally used for some mystery purpose, although the top works are indisputably Canaanite and Roman in origin. That is why, in March 2015, we will go to Baalbek to witness and film them for ourselves, and you may join us HERE. The legendary âStone of the Southâ is still awaiting delivery from a neighboring quarry. It was long believed to be the world's biggest carved stone, weighing in at 1200 tons, until recent digs revealed a previously hidden 1500 ton neighbor. While there are cranes capable of lifting such a stone, they cannot move and carry it simultaneously. Furthermore, the notion that wooden rollers would have been utilized is absurd. So who carried out this work? When will this occur?
When Augustus, Rome's emperor, conquered the area in 27 BC, he ordered that the gigantic obelisk that towered above others at Egypt's Karnak temple be carried to Rome, but the endeavor was abandoned when the prize proved to be too heavy. Its weight is estimated to be between 323 and 455 tons, depending on the source. The disparity must originate from the original obelisk's length of 36 meters and weight of 455 tons. Now that it is 4 meters shorter at the base, it must be lighter, and given that obelisks are usually far thicker at the base than they are higher up, a reduction of a hundred tons seems reasonable. As a result, the disparity is self-evident.
Baalbek, known to ancient Sumerians as âThe Landing Place. 7,000 B.C. megalithic ruins Baalbek (Arabic: â) is a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, located at an elevation of 1,170 metres (3,840 ft) east of the Litani River. It is renowned for its wonderfully crafted but monumentally sized Roman temple remains, which date from the time when Baalbek, then known as Heliopolis, was one of the Empire's major sanctuaries. It is Lebanon's biggest Roman treasure and one of the old world's marvels, featuring some of the largest and best-preserved Roman remains.
Due of the giant stone's likeness to the smaller ones, archaeologists assume it was also carved by Romans. It seems as if the Romans discovered the megaliths were too massive to move only after the carving was done. Additionally, it is reported that one of the megaliths was not utilized due to poor stone quality at one of the margins. Though Graham Hancock, a researcher, has reservations. He believes the Romans had a more sophisticated planning method. Hancock asserts that these megaliths were carved by an earlier civilisation, maybe 12, 000 years ago, and the Romans just erected the remainder around them. He even stated that they may be the same age as the Gobekli Tepe megalithic monument in Turkey. The scientist wonders why the Romans would create such enormous blocks and then not chop them down to smaller ones to avoid wasting their labor. We know that the Romans built atop the megalithic platform at Baalbek with smaller stones, but why would they open new quarry faces and not utilise what had previously been worked here?
