Everything You Need to Know About The Hidden Truth Of Baalbek
Baalbek is one of the most beautiful wonders in Lebanon , granting an unshakeable spot in the travel itinerary of many.
The three temples dedicated to Bacchus , Jupiter , and Venus are still standing tall as the biggest ever built in the great Roman Empire.
Previously known as Heliopolis , the famous temple complex has brought in people from all nationalities around the world, and also reputable researchers seeking to explore its mystery.
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Besides its majesty, the City of the Sun has always been a place of discovery, and a subject of high interest for researchers, archaeologists, and historians, including those pursuing their Ph.D. studies. Why? Because its mystery hasn't been yet revealed; until now.
There has been a puzzling matter about it that is almost never discussed. Yet, the questions hover all over it with the shaping answers muted for the finders not daring to defy its long-set reputation. And yet again, the questions themselves have the answers:
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Why did the Roman emperors build this magnificent complex of important religious significance to them right there in Lebanon in particular?
Why since Augustus (15 BC) till Hadrian (135 AD) none of these emperors built a complex as tremendously big anywhere else? Why in Lebanon and not in Rome, their great city in their own homeland?
Or why not in Carthage, for example? After all, the Romans sacked it and completely destroyed it after the infamous Punic Wars, which gave them a full hegemony on the known world of their era.
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Furthermore, when one considers what was needed back then to construct that majesty of a temple complex, another question has puzzled the researchers:
Why the tremendous efforts and hardships in carrying all these granite columns all the way from Aswan in Egypt to nowhere else in their vast Empire but an overheated terrain in the center of Lebanon?
That's unseen and unheard about their other temples all through the Roman empire, especially that the Romans knew that they had to account in their project to the arduous crossing of our rocky hills and mountains with these titanic granite columns.
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A big secret lies beneath and behind the construction of that complex; a truth the Romans were adamant to hide and for so long.
We know by now that all researchers have confirmed the existence of an even greater complex at that location that was built long before the Romans showed up.
It was their known feeling of superiority that made them invest such a tremendous effort to build at this spot specifically the biggest Roman temples on Earth.
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Even to a non-professional eye, the big difference is obvious between the great megalithic structures of the base and the different patterns of the Roman temples on top of it.
But it was those humongous stones of uncertain origin that have placed this ancient site amongst the 7 wonders of the world several years ago. Uncertain origin, and definitely proven not to be Roman.
So, who built them, if not the Romans?
The historian Dell Upton has noted "the unusual lack of documentation regarding who might have commissioned, paid for, or designed the temple. The site is a metaphor for the role of imaginative distortion in architectural history." (Ref. The New Yorker, Annals of Technology).
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Indeed, there is no proof that the Romans designed it, or built it, or commissioned it, or even paid for it.
What is really proven is that these underneath stones and structures that pre-existed the arrival of the Romans pertained to the Phoenicians , who were, as we know, the builders of Carthage, and the ancestors of the Romans' big enemies: The Carthaginians.
Unlike their historically known stance when it came to civilizations they used to conquer, the Romans did not remove the pre-existence stones of the Phoenician structures but built their new complex over them.
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That is an unarguable fact confirmed by the still existing stones visible for all to see. They are still there because the Romans couldn't remove them nor destroy them as they used to when erasing the civilizations they used to conquer.
In their conquests of civilizations, Romans were famous for erasing all traces of the previously advanced and peaceful civilizations and imposing their own.