Temple complex in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, built in the Roman period as Heliopolis, and the site of the largest worked stones ever moved by human beings.
The stones
Three limestone blocks in the podium wall of the Temple of Jupiter, the trilithon, weigh roughly eight hundred tonnes each. In the quarry a few hundred metres away lie the Stone of the Pregnant Woman at around a thousand tonnes, a second block of similar size, and a third identified in 2014 at roughly sixteen hundred tonnes, still attached to the bedrock. Those quarry blocks are the decisive evidence and they cut against the alternative reading: they are Roman-period work, abandoned in place, with the tool marks and the intended orientation visible.
What it is used for
Zecharia Sitchin places Baalbek as a landing platform on the corridor his geodesy draws from Ararat to the thirtieth parallel, and The Anunnaki Chronicles lists it with the Andean megaliths as the work of the same builders. The site’s own Landing Corridor bench runs that geometry on the real ellipsoid. The engineering question is real and separate: how the trilithon blocks were moved and placed is still argued about by people who accept the Roman date entirely.
Connections
Zecharia Sitchin · The Anunnaki Chronicles · The Wars of Gods and Men · Tiahuanaco · Puma Punku · Great Pyramid of Giza · Lost Civilization Hypothesis · Ancient Machining