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Are you familiar with Baalbek?  The megalithic stones there make Stonehenge look like a weekend project.

It's also Bible-adjacent, being located in Lebanon just a stone's-throw from Israel.

Quote from: Wycliffes_Shillelagh on Fri Aug 02, 2024 - 10:40:38Are you familiar with Baalbek?  The megalithic stones there make Stonehenge look like a weekend project.

It's also Bible-adjacent, being located in Lebanon just a stone's-throw from Israel.

Giants or Aliens at work. No one knows
From https://www.historicmysteries.com/archaeology/baalbek-stones/27542/

Moving Stone
Baalbek is not the only place where such massive stones were used for construction, and blocks this massive were moved in a single piece by many other civilizations than the Romans.


The three stones that seem otherworldly are termed trilithon. Each of these large stones alone weighs around 750 tons (680 tonnes). While the trilithon was used to create the Jupiter Baal Temple by the Romans, it is possible that the stones existed in the Middle East years ago during the construction of the temple.

Baalbek Legends

Absent a worldly explanation, many other more speculative theories have sprung up. For example, many believe the Nephilim, strange Biblical giants which probably survive from a mythology before Judaism, constructed Heliopolis's temple.

According to the Bible, the first city here was built by Nimrod, who ordered the giants to construct the temple. However, one common belief in all these legends and myths is that people believe this is a task that no human could achieve, and only supernatural or highly advanced beings could do.

Modern historians have come up with different theories, like the ancient civilizations like Sumerian tribes being able to contact extra-terrestrial beings and how aliens used to land at the larger-than-life sites of Heliopolis. However, one thing that all the historians agree on is that the site of Baalbek is very old.

It was not the Nephilim.  It was the Goa'uld.

Quote from: Rella on Sat Aug 03, 2024 - 10:49:42Giants or Aliens at work. No one knows
From https://www.historicmysteries.com/archaeology/baalbek-stones/27542/

Moving Stone
Baalbek is not the only place where such massive stones were used for construction, and blocks this massive were moved in a single piece by many other civilizations than the Romans.


The three stones that seem otherworldly are termed trilithon. Each of these large stones alone weighs around 750 tons (680 tonnes). While the trilithon was used to create the Jupiter Baal Temple by the Romans, it is possible that the stones existed in the Middle East years ago during the construction of the temple.

Baalbek Legends

Absent a worldly explanation, many other more speculative theories have sprung up. For example, many believe the Nephilim, strange Biblical giants which probably survive from a mythology before Judaism, constructed Heliopolis's temple.

According to the Bible, the first city here was built by Nimrod, who ordered the giants to construct the temple. However, one common belief in all these legends and myths is that people believe this is a task that no human could achieve, and only supernatural or highly advanced beings could do.

Modern historians have come up with different theories, like the ancient civilizations like Sumerian tribes being able to contact extra-terrestrial beings and how aliens used to land at the larger-than-life sites of Heliopolis. However, one thing that all the historians agree on is that the site of Baalbek is very old.

That's a little more fringe than I'd go.

But - as nearly as I can tell, it's located about where the Bible says the Garden of Eden should be.

Also, there's a non-zero chance that Solomon was involved in building it...

1Kings 7:2  [Solomon] built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1Kings 7:10  And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.