Baalbeck is located in one of the region’s most fertile farming regions. The three largest stones referred to as the trilithon stones in the western wall of the temple each have an estimated weight of between 800-1000 tonnes and are positioned several meters off the floor on top of other huge stone blocks. Therefore, the heavily eroded blocks should be much older. Baalbek (anc. Such a surviving name is Baalbek which, in the ancient Phoenician tongue, meant the City of Baal. This is a video walkthrough of the Temple of Jupiter complex in Baalbek Lebanon.

I found myself walking down a promenade lined with the flag of Hezbollah.

When the Greeks took possession, following the conquests of Alexander in the fourth century B.C., they translated that name into Heliopolis, the City of the Sun, for the Greeks recognized in Baal a solar divinity. Baalbek became one of the grandest worship centers of the Roman Empire before the advent of Christianity in 313 AD and was later seized by Muslim armies in the 7th century AD, who built a mosque at the site. The temple of Bacchus located within the temple complex of Baalbek.

( Wikipedia) One of the most awe-inspiring features of Baalbek are the incredible megalithic foundations of the Temple of Jupiter.

Inhabited as early as 9000 BCE, Baalbek grew into an important pilgrimage site in the ancient world for the worship of the sky-god Baal and his consort Astarte, the Queen of Heaven in Phoenician religion (the name 'Baalbek' means Lord Baal of the Beqaa Valley). Dedicated to Jupiter Heliopolitanus, it was built from the 1st century BC onwards on an immense substructure more than 90m long. Pop. Though largely ruinous, it impresses by its sheer size. Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, north of Beirut, in the Beqaa Valley. It covers the Propylaea entrance, The Hexagonal Court (Court of Venus, not be confused with The Venus Temple…

Baalbek, or Heliopolis as it was previously known 8000 years ago, sat on a peak of the Beqaa Valley was the global epicentre for festivals, celebration and debauchery. Indeed, it has been noted that the blocks in the retaining wall 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. An example of how ancient is the site can be found in that its holiest area (in pagan times) was the Temple of Baal-Jupiter — a hybrid between the ancient Canaanite god Baal (lord) and the Roman Jupiter. The Foundation Stones of The Temple of Jupiter. Heliopolis), a town of the Buka‛a (Coelesyria), altitude 3850 ft., situated E. of the Litani and near the parting between its waters and those of the Asi.

Baalbeck, also spelled Baalbek, Arabic Baʿlabakk, ... is located in tunnels beneath the courtyard of the Temple of Jupiter, and the annual Baalbeck International Festival, with musical and dramatic performances, is held during the summer at the temple complex. about 5000, including 2000 Metawali and 1000 Christians (Maronite and Orthodox). This temple was built on a monumental scale and is one of the largest Roman temples known. The temple was built on platform of stones that are among the largest building blocks seen in the whole world. The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek In 1977, Jean-Pierre Adam made a study suggesting the large blocks could have been moved on rollers with machines using capstans and pulley blocks, a process which he suggested could use 512 workers to move a 557-ton block (almost half as heavy as the trilithon blocks) (6). Baalbek, Lebanon, is the site of one of the most mysterious ruins of the Roman Empire, a monumental two-thousand-year-old temple to Jupiter that sits atop three thousand-ton stone blocks. Layout of the temple complex at Baalbek. Pop. In Roman times it was known as Heliopolis or City of the Sun. Since 1902 Baalbek has been connected by railway with Rayak (Rejak) on the Beirut-Damascus line, and since 1907 with Aleppo. I'd some how ended up in the Hezbollah Capital. Baalbek is the name of an archeological site in Lebanon.