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05-23-2012, 11:58 AM
From Filer's Files #20-2012:
Ancient Acropolis of Baalbek, Lebanon
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image010.jpgBaalbek, Lebanon is one of the great mysteries of history and provides evidence of a past super civilization or, at least, a technically advanced civilization of “prehistory.” The stone blocks of the platform are the world’s biggest building blocks. The platform and big courtyard are retained by three walls containing twenty-seven limestone blocks, unequaled in size anywhere in the world, as they all weigh in excess of 300 metric tons. Three of the blocks, however, weigh more than 800 tons each. This block trio is world-renowned as the "Trilithon".
This photo taken in 1870s shows the tremendous size of the blocks with a man standing near the bottom left on the hill to compare the size of the stones. The smaller upper stones of Roman date are haphazardly placed on top to form a medieval fortress.
Scholar Zecharia Sitchen claims early Sumerian writings depict the vast platform at Baalbek was a marvel of technology and was built as landing place of the shuttlecraft of the ancient astronauts or Anunnaki. It had been built before the flood in pre-Duluvian times. The Anunnaki (those who from heaven came) came in groups of fifty with the mission to obtain gold apparently to save their planet.
Our own science and engineering today cannot explain them; let alone what their function was. It would seem some unknown culture could move these great stones, place them on top of others, in perfect fit and alignment, before the dawn of our most ancient cultures.
Their style is identical to the earliest cultures of monumental stone we know of like the Egyptian Giza Pyramid, Malta, and the Pre-Incan Peru cultures. Perfectly cut, though smaller, stones were found. The megaliths were not designed as the foundation of the original building, but were meant to be the top. Why? What for? The much later stones of the Roman temple can be seen built behind and on top of them.
This evolution in stonework is remarkable. From the small Roman and Turkish blocks, we go further down to monumental blocks identical with our earliest cultures. Yet lower than this, we come not to primitive mud bricks or shanty-hut foundations, but to the greatest stones ever worked by man.
At the southern entrance of town is a quarry where the stones used in the temples were cut.
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image011.jpg
A huge block with 28 people shown is considered the largest hewn stone in the world, still sits where it was cut thousands of years ago. Called the "Stone of the Pregnant Woman", it is 21.5m x 4.8m x 4.2 meters in size and weighs an estimated 1,000 tons.
Greek historians wrote about Baalbek as early as 336 B.C. describing that Alexander the Great had moved his Army past Baalbek after defeating the Babylonians on his way to conquer Egypt. Interestingly UFOs were also reported in the sky with red lights in the shape of baskets moving extremely fast. They noted ruins dedicated to the Phoenician sun god Baal were found... The significance of Baalbek is its huge raised platform comprised of stone blocks of enormous weight and size. Historians were told at the time that the stone platform was the oldest on Earth. It’s thought to have survived the great flood some 13,000 years ago. The original ruins may have been built by Akkadians some of the first civilizations on Earth.
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image012.png
The Akkadian Empire reached its peak during this time and King Naram-Suen (2291-2255 BC) aggrandized his kingly titles accordingly, calling himself King of the Universe. His name, both contemporary and subsequent to his reign, was prefixed with a star, denoting that he was a god. The Akkadian Empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran
The Akkadian Empire fell around 2200 BC, the same time as the decline of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Indus Valley in Pakistan, and the Early Bronze civilizations of Palestine, Greece and Crete. It is estimated that a severe drought had been responsible for the decline of these civilizations, and new evidence from the Gulf of Oman has surfaced that it had the worst dry spell in 10,000 years and that it lasted for 300 years. Although there is still no proof that it was the direct cause of the empire's fall, there's a good chance it was a litigating factor.
King Naram-Suen's Victory over the Lullubi
The Egyptians are known to have conquered the Beka Valley city and fortress in the 9th Century B.C. in an area known as Heliopolis. The Egyptians built temples to their sun god Ra on the ancient platform. They are not clumsy artifacts, crude and compromised cuts like Stonehenge. They are perfectly fitted 1,000 ton stones forming a foundation not even a huge Roman temple could encompass.
Baalbek’s location is in Lebanese mountains, about sixty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea coast at 34º latitude and 36º longitude. It was the center burial region in the midst of thousands of rock cut tombs.
When Augustus, emperor of Rome had conquered the region in 27 BC, he ordered that the massive obelisk towering above others at the Karnak temple in Egypt be brought to Rome, but the effort was aborted, when the trophy proved too heavy. Sources give varying estimates of its weight, from 323 tons to 455 tons. Lavishing great architecture on Baalbek then seems totally out of character for the undeniably selfish Rome, which had at the very same time been stealing historic treasures from other countries, such as the obelisks from Egypt.
It makes more sense that Baalbek had something no other place could offer, not even the city of Rome, the heart of the empire. This something may also be the reason why so many people wished to be buried there. Rumors claimed this was where the Gods came to Earth.
It is apparent the huge stones in the retaining wall (platform of the Baalbek temple site clearly look a lot more eroded than the bona fide Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, as well as those of the other two Roman temples also on the site. Therefore, the heavily eroded blocks should be much older.
This fact naturally gives rise to a different scenari At Baalbek Rome had found a fabulous readymade foundation, a mighty platform to add a suitably majestic structure to, stamping the Roman eagle upon the whole for the perception of future generations. The acropolis of Baalbek comprises several temples built by Roman engineers at time of Christ over 2000 years ago.
Ancient Acropolis of Baalbek, Lebanon
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image010.jpgBaalbek, Lebanon is one of the great mysteries of history and provides evidence of a past super civilization or, at least, a technically advanced civilization of “prehistory.” The stone blocks of the platform are the world’s biggest building blocks. The platform and big courtyard are retained by three walls containing twenty-seven limestone blocks, unequaled in size anywhere in the world, as they all weigh in excess of 300 metric tons. Three of the blocks, however, weigh more than 800 tons each. This block trio is world-renowned as the "Trilithon".
This photo taken in 1870s shows the tremendous size of the blocks with a man standing near the bottom left on the hill to compare the size of the stones. The smaller upper stones of Roman date are haphazardly placed on top to form a medieval fortress.
Scholar Zecharia Sitchen claims early Sumerian writings depict the vast platform at Baalbek was a marvel of technology and was built as landing place of the shuttlecraft of the ancient astronauts or Anunnaki. It had been built before the flood in pre-Duluvian times. The Anunnaki (those who from heaven came) came in groups of fifty with the mission to obtain gold apparently to save their planet.
Our own science and engineering today cannot explain them; let alone what their function was. It would seem some unknown culture could move these great stones, place them on top of others, in perfect fit and alignment, before the dawn of our most ancient cultures.
Their style is identical to the earliest cultures of monumental stone we know of like the Egyptian Giza Pyramid, Malta, and the Pre-Incan Peru cultures. Perfectly cut, though smaller, stones were found. The megaliths were not designed as the foundation of the original building, but were meant to be the top. Why? What for? The much later stones of the Roman temple can be seen built behind and on top of them.
This evolution in stonework is remarkable. From the small Roman and Turkish blocks, we go further down to monumental blocks identical with our earliest cultures. Yet lower than this, we come not to primitive mud bricks or shanty-hut foundations, but to the greatest stones ever worked by man.
At the southern entrance of town is a quarry where the stones used in the temples were cut.
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image011.jpg
A huge block with 28 people shown is considered the largest hewn stone in the world, still sits where it was cut thousands of years ago. Called the "Stone of the Pregnant Woman", it is 21.5m x 4.8m x 4.2 meters in size and weighs an estimated 1,000 tons.
Greek historians wrote about Baalbek as early as 336 B.C. describing that Alexander the Great had moved his Army past Baalbek after defeating the Babylonians on his way to conquer Egypt. Interestingly UFOs were also reported in the sky with red lights in the shape of baskets moving extremely fast. They noted ruins dedicated to the Phoenician sun god Baal were found... The significance of Baalbek is its huge raised platform comprised of stone blocks of enormous weight and size. Historians were told at the time that the stone platform was the oldest on Earth. It’s thought to have survived the great flood some 13,000 years ago. The original ruins may have been built by Akkadians some of the first civilizations on Earth.
http://www.listrocket.com/ktml2/user/1241_M837Hca3MN/images/uploads/1241_ScG1wliUrO0Mvuxylvib_files/image012.png
The Akkadian Empire reached its peak during this time and King Naram-Suen (2291-2255 BC) aggrandized his kingly titles accordingly, calling himself King of the Universe. His name, both contemporary and subsequent to his reign, was prefixed with a star, denoting that he was a god. The Akkadian Empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran
The Akkadian Empire fell around 2200 BC, the same time as the decline of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Indus Valley in Pakistan, and the Early Bronze civilizations of Palestine, Greece and Crete. It is estimated that a severe drought had been responsible for the decline of these civilizations, and new evidence from the Gulf of Oman has surfaced that it had the worst dry spell in 10,000 years and that it lasted for 300 years. Although there is still no proof that it was the direct cause of the empire's fall, there's a good chance it was a litigating factor.
King Naram-Suen's Victory over the Lullubi
The Egyptians are known to have conquered the Beka Valley city and fortress in the 9th Century B.C. in an area known as Heliopolis. The Egyptians built temples to their sun god Ra on the ancient platform. They are not clumsy artifacts, crude and compromised cuts like Stonehenge. They are perfectly fitted 1,000 ton stones forming a foundation not even a huge Roman temple could encompass.
Baalbek’s location is in Lebanese mountains, about sixty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea coast at 34º latitude and 36º longitude. It was the center burial region in the midst of thousands of rock cut tombs.
When Augustus, emperor of Rome had conquered the region in 27 BC, he ordered that the massive obelisk towering above others at the Karnak temple in Egypt be brought to Rome, but the effort was aborted, when the trophy proved too heavy. Sources give varying estimates of its weight, from 323 tons to 455 tons. Lavishing great architecture on Baalbek then seems totally out of character for the undeniably selfish Rome, which had at the very same time been stealing historic treasures from other countries, such as the obelisks from Egypt.
It makes more sense that Baalbek had something no other place could offer, not even the city of Rome, the heart of the empire. This something may also be the reason why so many people wished to be buried there. Rumors claimed this was where the Gods came to Earth.
It is apparent the huge stones in the retaining wall (platform of the Baalbek temple site clearly look a lot more eroded than the bona fide Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, as well as those of the other two Roman temples also on the site. Therefore, the heavily eroded blocks should be much older.
This fact naturally gives rise to a different scenari At Baalbek Rome had found a fabulous readymade foundation, a mighty platform to add a suitably majestic structure to, stamping the Roman eagle upon the whole for the perception of future generations. The acropolis of Baalbek comprises several temples built by Roman engineers at time of Christ over 2000 years ago.