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ACT to foster happiness, peace, prosperity, and tolerance in the Middle East
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History Has Made Us What We Are!
These pictures belong to an excellent collection I have taken of the splendid and treasured temples of Baalbeck, Lebanon. Baalbeck, or Heliopolis, or the City of the Sun, used to be one of the greatest cities of the Roman Empire. The temples are still standing as an evidence of a magnificent past. Enjoy!
One of my best pictures. This lion head sculpture once played the role of a gargoyle on the roof's contour of Jupiter Temple in Baalbeck. It still symbolizes beauty, fertility, and power to me.
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The remaining six columns of Jupiter Temple, where the Sun God of the fertile Bekaa was once worshipped. Compare the giant 65 feet columns with the people near the base of the temple. Now ask yourself; how did they build such temple 1900 years ago.
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This is the temple of Bacchus; the wine God with Baalbeck city in the background. This is the place were blood sacrifices and sacred prostitution used to take place. This is by far the masterpiece of the Roman Architecture.
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Heble Stone, the largest stone carved stone in the world. It is 70 feet in length, 16 by 14 feet in cross section. It weighs 1500 tons. Intended to be used in the temples, it is estimated that 40,000 men were required to move it to the temples that appear in the background. |
