Baalbeck is located on two main historic trade routes, one between the Mediterranean coast and the Syrian interior and the other between northern Syria and northern Palestine.
Baalbeck means "city of Baal". Baal is a title ,that is used for various gods, spirits and demons.
In this case many believe the God to be "Hadad" the God of thunder,lightening, rain and earthquakes.

Different civilisations have conquered the area and built their temples to their Gods at that place on existing foundations.
During the Hellenistic period (333-64 B.C.) the Greeks identified the god of Baalbeck with the sun god and the city was called Heliopolis or City of the Sun.
The Romans then came and built their temple of Jupiter over the previous one.Its ruins now stand on a platform that rose even higher by rows of perfectly shaped stone blocks weighing some 600 tons( the stone blocks of the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, weigh about 25 tons each).

These are not the bigggest blocks there.The western wall of a towerlike structure has been reinforced with rows (“courses”) of stone blocks weighing 900 tons each. And yet, on top of them, another higher course is made up of three unique stone blocks weighing 1,100 tons each. And about two miles from the site, there lies another of those 1,100-ton blocks – apparently unfinished. :Ohmy:

The quarry is in a valley, a couple of miles from the site of the “ruins.” This means that, someone had the capability and technology needed for quarrying, cutting and shaping colossal stone blocks. Then they had to lift, transport the stones to the site and place them precisely in the designated course. And there they have remained, intact and unshaken in spite of the passage of time and frequent earthquakes – held together and in place without any mortar.

Many questions obviously go begging here, such as:
Who cut and worked these enormous stones?
How did they move them?
How did they transport them?
How could they be so precise in placing them?
Why were they needed?
What was the terrace needed for?

One theory that will not go away is that the place was made as a landing pad, was the take off point for interplanetary or interstellar spacecraft. The blocks could have served as a biological shield to protect the people of the area from harmful radiation emitted on take off.

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