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I. Baalbek, Lebanon GPS: 34 N.- 35 E.

People looking very small & out of place on top of a massive stone block

Before diving into the mysteries of this very ancient, and very enigmatic site, I want to establish its geographic location and place in history. I do this with an end-purpose in mind..

Most often the physical artifacts, the massive Baalbek ruins, are so overwhelming that people forget where it is and the history of the region..

What I mean by that statement is simply that Baalbek is located in modern Lebanon.

When we study a map we see that it is actually quite close to Jerusalem, 250 miles north; and not even that far from ancient Sumeria and the city of Ur.

Now, I also bring that up at this juncture for a reason. Baalbek sits in the heart of ancient Canaan. The city of [Jerusalem was also in that ancient, biblical land.

This region is actually the central focus of the Old Testament.

Once Abraham leaves Ur and takes up residence in the land of Canaan, that becomes drama-central thereafter. Later,, Canaan becomes the absolute focus of the tribe (Hebrew) led by Moses, into the desert, after fleeing from Egypt.

After all, Canaan was the Promised Land and their mission was to eradicate the inhabitants of the land, who happened to be giants.

Now, is it a coincidence that Baalbek -- which is a 10 on the scale of megalithic enigmas (1 to 10) on the planet, just happens to be in this region?

I never read a tract about Baalbek that gives this historical context and background. Do not forget, when considering who might have built this mysterious site, that the Anakim and Raphaim,, and other races of giants, were in the land in those days…

All of this fits together, but the ties that once bound and connected them together, have been loosened, many broken and/or lost, and those left are now difficult to find, identify and/or comprehend. They have become loose ends that seem to haunt us on a peripheral level of awareness..

This is part of the paradox of human history -- and especially the most ancient history on the planet -- which is not necessarily ours, not in each and every case anyway.

One needs a lot of discernment when combing through these ancient precincts for answers! It is very easy to get led astray, become lost, confused, and then simply give up the quest for the truth of the ancient history of our planet..

We did not build Baalbek. Let’s get that out of the way right off the top. It is above and beyond the human dimension, it dwarfs us, makes any human feel very small and vulnerable.

That is a false claim that scholars make, as false as the one about the ancient Egyptians building the Great Pyramid. Both assertions can be easily debunked. (But not as far as academia is concerned; I mean debunked before an impartial, scientific panel).

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I hope to get that opportunity one day.]

But then, who did build it.? That of course… is the ultimate mystery…

UNESCO describes the site as "one of the most famous sanctuaries of the Roman world and a model of Imperial Roman architecture."

The statement is indicative of the prevailing “history” told in our academic institutions, textbooks, and “history” travel brochures. It is simultaneously both stupid and absurd, not to mention patently false..

Do those ants in the picture look like they fit naturally into that stupendous, superhuman-looking scene? Those little creatures looking lost among the soaring stone pillars and massive walls

No, I think not.

Maybe our scholars assume that we, -- the proverbial unwashed, faceless, generic public -- are inattentive, gullible and unschooled concerning ancient history, physics and engineering principles.

Maybe in some special ‘expert’ cases, but at least we still have a modicum of commonsense and objectivity left.Enough to know that the stone blocks at Baalbek pose some very serious problems involving how they were lifted and transported.

Cutting to the chase, the Romans could not have built Baalbek in their wildest dreams, period.

Moreover, the evidence supporting that assertion is plentiful and enough to argue in a court of law and win the case.

This presentation is aimed primarily at two issues: 1) whether or not the Romans constructed Baalbek from the ground-up and 2) showing that sophisticated heavy equipment was in use by whomever built it, whenever they conducted that huge undertaking..

In fact, the Romans had extreme difficulties, and numerous failures, raising and transporting the obelisks from Egypt to Rome for starters. Those efforts were recorded in the Roman annals. We know the historical facts that went into those sometimes failed efforts, because they were documented at the time by them.

However, the Romans never documented ‘their” alleged construction of Baalbek in any detail. There are no Roman documents spelling out how they quarried, lifted and transported 300 to 800-ton stone blocks to build the massive foundation and walls we see.

That is not to say that the Romans did not construct temples at Baalbek, they did. It is to raise the distinction between what they built, and what they did not, and could not build.

Most of the obelisks that were removed from Egypt, and still stand in Rome today, weighed less than 250 tons. However, several weighed over 300 tons. But the Romans lost, both heavy barges and ships, during a number of obelisk transport operations.. The precious granite stones ended up on the sea floor.

It proved a large and costly undertaking. Moreover it was done mainly so the Emperor and Senate could put Rome on equal footing with ancient Egypt. for window-dressing purposes really..

However, 300 tons is pipsqueak material at Baalbek where the trillithon blocks weigh 800 tons. In addition, the Romans never quarried or lifted the Egyptian obelisks out of a deep, quarry-hole. That is actually the most challenging task.

The cyclopean blocks, however, were quarried, lifted and transported more than a kilometer from the quarry to the building site at Baalbek..

In fact, this must be explained because those massive stones sit there as mocking cold, hard facts today, just as they have for thousands of years. They are physical realities and science is supposed to deal with physical phenomena- first and foremost.

Now, the opening statement I quoted is actually both true and false, in fact.

The stamp of Roman architectures and engineers is on the upper level of the site. However, beneath that, lie the works of other earlier civilizations and apparently, at least one of those, remains unidentified. That would be the one that quarried, lifted and moved the giant stones to build the foundation and walls.

The Romans had the habit of always putting their temples on top of the native temples and/or sacred sites. They did this wherever they went. Baalbek is no exception.

But try to find any other site, among the ruins, of the once vast Roman empire, that displays the type of stonework that Baalbek does. No such site exists and Roman historians know this fact but say nothing.

The earliest stonework and architectural style found at Baalbek, are simply not found anywhere else in the Roman empire. We shall return to this point shortly.

But for now, let us examine the physical plant in general. The complex is located on an immense, raised plaza erected 5 m (16 ft) above an earlier, far older, T-shaped base.

The base consists of a podium, staircase, and foundation walls. These walls were built using 24 monoliths, at the lowest level the blocks weigh approximately 300 tonnes (330 tons) each.

The picture clearly shows varying types, sizes and styles of stonework. The most obvious fact that jumps out is that the size of stones diminishes from the enormous blocks on the bottom to the small blocks below the columns

Not only does the size diminish, the quality of the stone masonry work appears to diminish somewhat as well.

At Baalbek we are looking at the most enigmatic, most unique, ancient site on the planet. Here we find the largest cut-stone building blocks ever used in a construction. Furthermore, the largest unused quarried and cut-stone blocks as well.

In recent years a massive stone was discovered that weighs an estimated 1600 tons. We are talking about a single stone that equals the combined weight of 500 medium size automobiles, 50 locomotive train engines !

The tallest retaining wall, on the western flank, has a second course of monoliths containing the famous triithon, "three stones.” Each of the three, is about 19 m (62 ft) long, 4.3 m (14 ft) high, and 3.6 m (12 ft) wide. They were cut out of a limestone quarry about a kilometer distant.

Clearly, builders with different styles and capabilities took their turns over the course of a very long history, and added their work. But the lowest levels are easily distinguished and separated from those above them as noted earlier.

The entirety of the real history of this site can pretty much be read from the prior wall and this one, stripping the complexity of the Baalbek ruins down to this perspective gives a clear picture

Now, if you looked carefully, and closely, you may have noticed that something was wrong - or perhaps abnormal is a better term - with the architecture. Okay, you may have registered it subliminally. Now, examine the image again for a moment. It is obvious when you see it but maybe not so much until then..

Now, do you see that the trilithon blocks are sitting on top of smaller blocks? That is upside-down in terms of the way foundations are normally constructed. The Romans never would have used this odd layout and never did use it.

Below is a diagram which makes it easy to see that the layout is upside-down (inverted) in terms of what is considered to be best practices by architects today. In fact, this style is not found anywhere else, either in the ancient world or modern.

This is yet another piece of compelling evidence against the Romans having built Baalbek from the ground-up. They surely did not! The diagram below shows, with crystal clarity what I am talking about.

Now, I am not going to breeze on by these age-old anomalies like a glib tourist guide with pat answers. Here we pause and ponder, think and face reality, or go home… There is a tiny person just to the right of the center of the photo in black, truly ant-size. (I am sure you noticed)

My gut, my commonsense, tells me that ants had nothing to do with those monster blocks of stone, on and just above, the bottom level! The ones above them on the upper courses of masonry, yes, I believe so, the work of humans. Do we really need more, as in experts, than our own commonsense to make this determination? No,not really.

One must pause and even stop at this site to really think about the elements, the details observed..

The most ancient (unknown) builders of this complex did not view the principles of architecture and engineering the way we do, or even, the Romans, once did. Three tiers of smaller stone blocks were placed below the most massive blocks. Smaller, but still megalithic in size, we should also note.

No one has any explanation as to why this was done, however. Only serious researchers pay any attention to these details. But they make the difference between fully comprehending, and just having a feeling that things do not add up to reality, in the conventional history.

Baalbek dates back to at least to the end of the third millennium B.C., the site was then used to worship Semitic (Canaanite) deities like Baal or El. Ancient site-dating is always a disputed issue and this one is no exception. Attributing its construction to the Romans makes it a fairly young site as ancient history goes.

However, let us keep in mind that these ruins were in the biblical land of Canaan. Their actual age is impossible to determine with any certainty. However, it is surely indicated by the severely aged, partially eroded, limestone blocks that comprise the lowest tiers.

The locality is known to have been continuously inhabited for over 9,000 years. As noted above, the inhabitants were Semitic-speaking tribes, also known as Canaanites in the bible. In a later era they would be known as the seafaring Phoenicians..

The Hebrew Bible refers to the general area as being inhabited by the Anakim & Raphaim, descendants of the Nephilim, a hybrid race of giants referred to in Genesis 6. These hybrids emerged from the union between the sons of the ( Elohim) gods and (human) women.

Though many people do, the bible simply cannot be dismissed as a reliable source of real history and used as a valid reference book. After all, it claimed that Sumeria, Ur, Babylon, et al. actually existed at a time when no one believed it. That is until their ruins were unearthed in the mid-1800’s.

People forget that our ancient history was entirely lost -- an astonishing and disturbing fact -- and we are still trying to put the pieces back together. Scholars knew nothing of Sumeria in 1818, now we know it was the first, founder civilization!

That fact has disturbing ramifications.

The problem with Baalbek is that there are scant references to the site in any ancient cultural artifacts or writings. None that really cover remote antiquity in the region itself. The bible makes note of Baalbek, as having been ordered to be built by the now semi-mythical mighty King Nimrod.

In that context I have a small detail to add. King Nimrod’s Fort is located to the south in what is now Israel. I found a significant connection in the stone-masonry work at this site with that of, not only Baalbek, but the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

At this point, we have to forget about now -- and the resent history of the last few thousand years -- to rewind back to the time before the Jews, as known today, existed as a distinct people.

Jerusalem was, in very remote antiquity, simply called Salem or Shalem by the Semitic-speaking, native Canaanites, who eventually became the Jews.

This famous city already existed and we know that by the fact that Abraham met it’s King, Melchizedek just outside the eastern gate of the city. They not only understood each others language but also worshiped the same god, El.

In spite of what Christians or Jews may think that God’s name always was, the name Jehovah had not even been revealed at that early point in biblical (Hebrew) history. I bring up the location because the detail, that links Baalbek and Nimrod’s Fort, includes Jerusalem and the massive, Western Wall.

It is ironic that the megaliths in Jerusalem are seldom noted by alternative historians. I have been pointing to them for years. At this juncture, you are going to find out exactly why. Study the following photo closely for a moment and you will see a Baalbek-type block.

Largest block in the Western Wall, Jerusalem.

The block is about 40’ long and weighs roughly 500 tons. It sits inside the covered portion of the Western Wall. Do you see why I made the connection between Baalbek and Jerusalem, early on in this chapter?

It is unmistakably, a block quarried and dressed by the same (unknown) builders that built Baalbek! (Please click to go to video)

At this important juncture, we may be starting to really get somewhere with the mind-boggling puzzle posed by ancient history…