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"The inhuman scale" pretty well sums it up. Wonderfully done and explained, thank you so much.

This is the best edited, documentary type unbiased film I’ve ever experienced regarding Baalbek . No sensationalism, or conspiracy theory crap. Truly a high level project done by a well informed group of people. I’m sending this to everyone I know in spite of the weird ai narrator.

An interesting detail can be seen at 10:53. The natural features of the stone (quartz inclusions etc.) continue over the joinery. This means the stones were already neighbors in the quarry and were then cut and reassembled. However, modern saws are at least 1 cm thick which means you lose some material as you cut. The ancients, however, managed to cut without losing any material. I don't believe in aliens, but the least you have to admit is that the ancient builders had technical capabilities now lost to us. Who would even tackle such a project unless he had the capability to move these stones with ease?

However they did it, there were once people intelligent enough to manufacture and move these stones. Judging from the comments below, that will surely never happen again.

Thanks. Well thought out, concise and without super wild speculation.

The Romans left clear engineering drawings on moving megaliths: Wooden wheels were constructed on each end of the megalith, turning the megalith into a large axle. Then numerous ropes were wound around the stone axle and a large number of men, oxen and horses pulled on the ropes and the whole thing rolled. Large wheels go over large obstacles. This is the reason there are no drag marks. The stone isn't drug and it isn't even pulled over rollers. The holes on the stones are for pegs to hang the marble facade. Often the marble facades were looted to build other buildings. This happened to the marble in the Roman Coliseum which was looted to build St. Peter' Basilica and some of other parts of the Vatican. After the marble is taken, what is left is the base structural stone with holes in it.

I just love this. I was born in Beirut under foreign service and went here as a child. I try to imagine what this amazing place looked like when it was new.

Really superb Baalbek production! Some new angles and a bit of a travelog made this so fun and scientific.

It never fails to impress me how much effort and the amount of resources ancient people would use to construct these types of awesome structures. Humans are capable of amazing feats. You would think that we could really accomplish a lot if we could just get our shit together.

What's so strange is all these megastructures that you see around the world are not finished there is still rubble everywhere around every structure that you see just like a construction site once the job is done it's cleaned up around it to look neat all these structures still have the stone laying everywhere something stopped them from building on any further

In my opinion, I have always loved the story of Baalbeck since I was a child and I can say that it is the best video ever made about the mystery of Baalbeck. In fact we will never know the truth about Baalbeck mistery. Congratulations Rio Brazil

The floor of the Temple of Jupiter is interesting.

Thank you very much, excellent footage and narration. Keep up the great work, we really appreciate it!

Many engineers puzzled on accomplishments in antiquity

Imagine going back in time to look at this wen it was new.

well made; its about time someone takes interest in this amazing structure that sinks back in the abyss of human history.

Thank you for producing the version with the English translation

What an amazing piece of investigative archeology! The Romans made a big deal of transporting the Egyptian obelisks ..yet these obelisks are a fraction of the size and weight of the Baalbek megaliths! And they make no mention of that. It sounds like even they didn't know where these massive rocks came from or who put them there. It's clear that Baalbek stones were carved and put there long before the Roman civilization. Just another evidence for lost ancient high technology. I'm seriously starting to contemplate the human race has been 'reset' several times by cataclysms!

The Megaliths ,the Stone Henge ,the Pyramids etc were quiet likely constructed by the preflood Nephilims who were superior to mortal man and were men of renown (Genesis 6:4).

I dont even think the romans or greeks had anything do with anything. Because the trilithons as big as they are. The rest of the structures are made of the same stone and display the same coloration of the sediment in the stone. Ive been there. And ive seen things only my eyes know what they are. No one else knows. Clues to the age and erosion etc. This structures were amazing back then. Amazing. 12000 years ago. It was an honor to visit this site. Great honor. If only i could see what was docked in those massive stones in that time. I wonder why they left that one in the quarry though. ? ...

Baalbek in nordic language would be Balbäck, which means Boulder Creek or Big Boulder Creek.

I think the accent and narration were Just Fine, if not superb for being of foreign origin. I am a native English speaker who speaks two other languages. Excellent job. I understood every single word and this was a highly enjoyable and informative documentary 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

The voice is stranger than Baalbek.

Compliments. A very good work. This video shows very well these old structures..

Thanks guys great video

I like how the robotic narrator goes from Irish, Scottish and to it's Canadian accents lol. 😂

Thank you, I think that more people should be interested in our deep past. Perhaps we could do away with war and other problems if we knew our real past. I am surprised that no one has found a way to completely destroy these places, they are dangerous to the El ites.

U r the first human to describe ancient enigma ad is, without exaggerating, repeating falsehoods or idiotically accepting the wrong written history. Thank u

@20:42 The Romans didn't cut or move those blocks. That's why they never mentioned it.

Best examination of this site I've seen so far. Amazing work!

I’m from Baalbek 🤟🏻

It may have been discovered during the Roman era times but the Romans did not build this. They simply didn't have the knowledge or the skill level to accomplish these structures. And they were in ruins even back then

Where is the accent from? Half Original James Bond-half Canadian radio station DJ....weird stuff.

"Unknown method!" Yeah, I think that covers it!

Geopolymer concrete blocks poured in big formworks directly in their final position.

As someone who works as a stone Mason 3rd generation. I can tell you working with stone and granite is not easy. And talk about lost knowledge...there are less and less of us every year. It's hard to find aprentences or any willing to learn. It's been a dying trade for a long time. Between the math and the hard work. Not many want to put in the effort.

It's amazing what ancient people could achieve. Today, people struggle to pronounce the word "stone" without sounding "stewned".

That is Fantastic. I would like to go back to Lebanon and tour Baal Beek

I agree with Manu. The only thing comparable today is the Atlas lifting platform at Nasa where the concrete and streel go down over 40'. I'm not a geologist, however, the weathering of the rock looks like a minimum of 250,000 years old to me.

Went there during my honeymoon. The scale of Baalbek is enormous. -Beth Blume

That was not built by the Romans

Very good video. Thanks for that.

The courtyard blocks are not roman! Those are also older..the style is found in different older megalithic places! Somehow it seems like there were one big catastrophe where the building stopped, then they build again, something happened again and then came the romans. But who know what under the plattform! The base must be at least over 10000 years old

Feel like having found Ponds of Gold viewing these in English...thnXx Ombio

Nice presentation. Those "chisel" Mark's are pretty intriguing never seen them so detailed before. Cool stuff, they were super precise placing them huh.

Built by giants: 2 Samuel 21: 15 And the Philistines were again fighting against Yisra’ĕl, so Dawiḏ and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines. And Dawiḏ was weary, 16 and Yishbo-Benoḇ - who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred pieces, who was bearing a new sword - spoke of striking Dawiḏ. 17 But Aḇishai son of Tseruyah came to help him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then Dawiḏ’s men swore to him, saying, “Do not go out with us to battle any more, lest you put out the lamp of Yisra’ĕl.” 18 And it came to be afterward, that there was a battle again with the Philistines at Goḇ. Then Sibbeḵai the Ḥushathite struck Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant. 19 And there was a battle with the Philistines again at Goḇ, where Elḥanan son of Ya‛arĕy-Oreḡim the Bĕyth Leḥemite struck Golyath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 20 And there was a battle in Gath again, where there was a man of great height, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number. And he also was descended from the giants. 21 And he reproached Yisra’ĕl, and Yehonathan son of Shim‛i, the brother of Dawiḏ, struck him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of Dawiḏ and by the hand of his servants. 1 Chronicles 20: 6 And there was fighting again at Gath, where there was a man of great size, with twenty-four fingers and toes, six and six. And he too was born to the giant. 7 And he reproached Yisra’ĕl, and Yehonathan son of Shim‛a, Dawiḏ’s brother, struck him. 8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of Dawiḏ and by the hand of his servants. 1 Chronicles 22 Benayah was the son of Yehoyaḏa, the son of a brave man from Qaḇtse’ĕl, who had done many deeds. He struck two lion-like Mo’aḇites. He also went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. 23 And he struck a Mitsrian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. And in the Mitsrian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam, and he went down to him with a staff and wrenched the spear out of the Mitsrian’s hand, and killed him with his own. Deuteronomy 1 28 Where are we going to? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we, the cities are great and walled up to the heavens, and we saw the sons of the Anaqim there too.” Deuteronomy 2:21 a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim. But יהוה destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, 22 as He had done for the descendants of Ěsaw, who dwelt in Sĕ‛ir, when He destroyed the Ḥorites from before them. Deuteronomy 9:1 “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: You are passing over the Yardĕn today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, cities great and walled up to the heavens, 2 a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anaqim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who does stand before the descendants of Anaq?’ 3 “And you shall know today that יהוה your Elohim is He who is passing over before you as a consuming fire - He does destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall dispossess them and destroy them quickly, as יהוה has said to you.

The large blocks in the quarry were carved out at an angle to facilitate their removal. Cutting the blocks from the bedrock at that angle serves to simultaneously create the ramp that allows the removal of the block from the resulting pit. This would have been a time-and-effort saving measure used during the quarrying process.

Very well done.

Sean Connery and Owen Wilson?

Fascinating video! Thank you very much for this. The comments are equally as good. Most of them anyway. Liked, shared and subbed.

Thank you for sharing this.. 👍

this makes me want to cry because I just dont understand. how it was done. 800 ton blocks.. . mark twain says it was a race of giants and gods

This is where the Romans learned to make the best concrete from the best ashes. This is clearly seen on the facade cracks and decorations. Natural rock doesn't crack like that.

The narrator sounds like an alien from outer space is trying to speak like locals to fit in.

Narrator sounds a bit like Charlie Sheen 👍

very strange Robo voice....

I work in construction and those cut marks on the stone look just like the marks on wood when you cut it with a saw.

Your video us superb. Good images. It seems quite unbiased so I congratulate you. However, I guess there are some inaccuracies. biased. It is argued by the Mainstream that Baalbek is roman, that it cannot be old since the Trilithon stones and the limestone quarry stones do not show signs of erosion similar to the Sphinx of Giza. Even more that there are no ancient records previous to the Bronze Age talking about the site. Romans were famous by leaving historical written records of their buildings. In this case, there are just 4 ancient texts speaking about Baalbek. Antonius Pius started the construction of the Large Court in the II century AD, which was finished by his son Septimus Severus and was continued to be worshipped till the kingdom of Elagabalus (1) (2). His son Carcalla finished the Propylea. The roman emperor Phillip the Arab (Marcus Juluis Philipus), built the Hexagonal Court in between the two former structures. Later on, Constantinus the Great, demolished the Venus Temple in order to build a Basilica in the III century. Justinian carried away the remaining 8 granite columns to Hagya Sophia in Constantinopla(3). There is NO SINGLE document about the Jupiter and Bacchus's Temples. If they were so skilled why not to quarry granite near Constantinopla, and had to unmount, cut and transport over 1000 km 8 heavy columns??? Sphinx erosion in Giza was due to run-off water, which didn't take place in Baalbek (not a plateau). There are several evidences that Baalbek could have been buried under "several meters of mud" and clay. Thus erosion would have NOT happened. (5) A layer of as of 30 cm between the Bronze and Iron Age reinforces the statement. Drawings in the Temple of Bacchus cannot be seen below 10 meters high (there are pictures). But anyway, the best way assess the truth of this is to watch collections of vintage photos of Baalbek, of which there are hundreds (even video footage) on the web (I can provide a bunch of them). To evaluate the reach of the sludge just take a look at some ancient Pregnant Woman pictures and compare them with current ones (will see the lower part which is 5 meters high, almost completely buried, and al field arround full of slit. Going on with the erosion you may appreciate it in the PRE-ROMAN PODIUM (8) and the columns (again I can provide pictures). Granite sawing cuts like the ones at Giza can be found everywhere. In fact, it was so buried with sludge that beside the Pregnant Woman it was discovered in 2014!!! the so-called Baby-Stone (1600 tons) under more than 5 meters below the Pregnant Woman (1200 tons) stone. There could be some discussion about whether the base of the stones in the quarry is finished or not, but that's beyond the scope of this comment. There are some webs that shows a collection of drawing and pics from the XVII-XVIII centuries where the burial and rubble spread all around is manifest. The South Wall of Bacchus Temple (to the left as you enter) is badly damaged (it has been somewhat repaired during last decade, but I have older pictures), showing clear signs of black burning and vitrification, especially compared with the North Wall (to the right). Probably a plasma wave or discharge? (speculative). just open your mind, unbias it, and take a fresh glance at the Podiums; it's a sort of Sesame Street exercise for children: Large Stones below (50-300 tons), Small 'bricks' to both sides and above. LARGEEE-SMALLLL The Podium is a pre-roman terrace which is acknowledge by Lohman and other mainstream historians (9). In fact, there are papers that acknowledge the uncertainty about the TWO PODIUMS. In relation t1o the repairing column mentioned by Hanckock (I think is not so important), it is probably a Roman or Arab repair. Romans are supposed to be more intelligent than that. Even my 3 year old nephew knows it makes no sense to place a cylinder under a hole to support squared stones. If they were so skilled, why shouldn't they cut a squared stone to make the repair?? More questions: why did they left big stones in the quarries (1 km away from Baalbek)? Why no record or writing account of such incredible feats? Why didn't they built that huge Temples in Rome itself, instead doing it in a desert in the middle of nowhere? If the quarries were covered with slit which reached the level of the Podium Base (and the Trilithon, 10 meters in Bacchus temple) that explains why erosion didn't happen. Additionally it explains why no other accounts were made of the site, since even today new discoveries are being unearthed. Ir Romans would have noticed the Pregnant Woman or the Second Stone they would have used it as an easy material source (something like this happened in the Second Stone, from which some slabs were cut, probably by the Arabs). About moving the stones very bad references are given. Video is full of speculation such as saying that the western wall is a retaining wall which is mere lucubration and can't prove it. Another supposition is that Romans built the founding stones in the Jerusalem Temple. To assign a monument to a specific people one must have some evidence, yet there are none about Jupiter and Bacchus Temple, the Podium or the monoliths in the quarries. The Roman soldier and historian Ammianus Marcellinus (400 AD), wrote about the time of Augustus Emperor (14 AD) anD the LATERAN OBELISK (found in laying Karnak) : “...as for this one recently brought in, he neither ventured to meddle with it nor move it, overawed by the difficulties caused by its size” (11). Then about the periord of Constantine the Great (312 AD) he writes: "...After these provisions, the aforesaid emperor departed this life and the urgency of the enterprise waned, but at last the obelisk was loaded on the ship, after long delay, and brought over the sea and up the channel of the Tiber, which seemed to fear that it could hardly forward over the difficulties of its outward course to the walls of its foster-child the gift which the almost unknown Nile had sent. But it was brought to the vicus Alexandri14 distant three miles from the city. There it was put on cradles15 and carefully drawn through the Ostian Gate and by the Piscina Publica and brought into the Circus Maximus”. (11) So if the romans COULD NOT MOVE the LATERAN OBELISK (just 330 tons) in the time of Augustus, how do you want us to believe that 200 years later they were able to manage 1200-1600 tons blocks!!! NOTE: Not one of the Egyptian obelisk stolen by Rome weighed more that 330 tons!!! (12). First modern SUPER-CRANE able to lift nominal 1,000 tons was Krupp K 10001 built in 1971 (15). It was a mix of mobile and fixed crane and was constructed to build the Olympic Munich Stadium. The subject of the THUNDERSTONE (pedestal of Peter the Great horseman statue) is at best flimsy. The 1500 tons block, moved some impressive 6 km over an ICY MARSH land, was apparently split from the base rock by lightning, which could have some issues on its density (speculative). There is just one paper in french by J.P Adam (17) and some circling references from wiki to wiki. Even if Romans knew about winches, pulleys or capstans, it doesn't mean they were able to move such stones. The proof is they didn't move the monoliths in the quarries (probably because they were buried and unnoticed) and they could NOT even move the LATERAN OBELISK of 330 tons. We could argue about the wooden sleigh devised by Carbury (greek architect) which half meter thick base was protected by a cooper-tin-calamine alloy (bronze with calamine). Did romans knew calamine? To finnish with this, that XVII century men were capable of moving such a stone doesn't imply the romans could. Otherwise it is a Fallacy. Endeed, it's written by themselves they COULD NOT MOVE A 330 tons OBELISK. Bear in mind that modern 20th century man had serious issues to build a 6 meters high pyramid in Mark Lehner's Nova Experiment with 2-3 ton blocks. Nippon Corporation also had serious headaches to transport such blocks through the Nile from Turah quarry to setup a 20 meter high roughly unpolished pyramid. And the 20 more advanced countries in the world spent 6 years to disassemble Abu Simbel Temple needing to cut in small portions in order to move it up the slope when Aswan Dam was finished in the 60's. About the age, well there's no evidence as we cannot date rock. But it's possible to speculate with a lesser gravity, so it would belong to pre-Flood age.

For the megalithic stones base, why did not cut the stones into smaller size so that they could be easily moved and lifted. Besides, why did the jointing have to be that perfectly fitted ？

I wish i could visit this sites. I will travel the world one day and visit each one of them. This is the platform that was constructed as a docking station.

Looks like was was completed but blown apart or destroyed at some point before the romans.

At 24:30 it is strange that why the stone on top left hand side was broken up there instead of falling down in whole piece. It probably hit by extreme power from above.

They must have had some serious cranes back then. No way could those blocks have been placed without them. I don't care how big these guys were.

The design of these buildings remind me of important buildings throughout Europe and America, with the triangular shape over the columns, Petra also

Amazing structures! Unfortunately I could only stand 10 minutes of the narrator!

Is this a electronic voice or real? What accent is this ? Great doc by the way

Excellent investigation you guys. Best one I’ve seen yet. You captured fantastic detailed footage. Thanks for this one.

We didn't make these. This is before the great flood.

The original people of Lebanon are Christians and we are still here

Very nice job Ombio.

The temple complex shape reminds me of the temple of man (Luxor) in Egypt

Was there when I was a kid, still remember it.

Incredible place ❤️

Baalbek - Baal/Enlil/Yahwei/Zeus God of Jupiter hence the Jupiter temple.

Trying to imagine what it all looked like when it was brand new….INCREDIBLE in scale now but must have been magnificent!!

This is a fantastic publication thanks very much for sharing all the very best phil the ancient alternative view...

Why does the narrator exaggerate his accent? Does he think it makes it more distinctive?

Good music too

I like the new, added information that I've never heard before. Thank you!

Great narration. Love the Voice.

When we start talking about weights of 1,000 tons, all the muscle, willpower and slaves would not budge them an inch. Wooden rollers would literally be crushed by weights of this magnitude. I have absolutely no idea how these feats were accomplished. The overriding question is "why bother" when it is easier to build in smaller stones ?...it appears it was easy for them.

If any of these achievements were made since the Ice Age like in the last 10 to 15,000 years then we would have records of who built them because no one would make unbelievable things like this and not brag about it and have it not written anywhere it was all washed away in the flood this stuff I believe the most incredible stuff is at least 15 or 20,000 years old I think Isa is at least 20 or 30,000 years old it has nothing to do with the Egyptian culture that came afterwards they Tried their best to copy what they found

One of the most complete and info dense documentaries on Baalbeck I've ever seen. e.g. at 8:23 Some of those 'chisel' marks resemble the result of machines like, or similar to, underground mining machines we use today. e.g. google images: "underground continuous grinder machines"

It is obvious that the structure was not completed due to the fact that some of the stones are cut but still in the quarry.

.....or there were giants in those days....

Yo Charlie Sheen...I like your channel.

He's just kidding, the Romans did not build Baalbek

Seen many videos on this but never saw the precision joints between the hint stones

They found the ruins and built on top of it.

Who ever moved the trilithons, it must have been easy for them.

What great information!!! You're a credit to the one,s who are listening! Thank you so very much for sharing!

Let's not forget that this area was the main source of massive Cedar trees which the Phoenicians traded for goods all over the Mediterranean. If there was ever an ideal place to build massive wooden structures for moving giant stones, this was it.

Did Humphrey Bogart narrate this?

To any who are curious about this decidedly bizarre accent employed by the narrator, it seems like a hybrid of several distinct accents, from what I have been able to identify: A pinch of Mid-Atlantic Media Voice (early 20th century newsreel accent), a dash of California Valley Grrl (Eoh Mai Gaaawd), a dollop of Southern US Hick, some Canadian English (tell me ABOOT it) crumbled and a dash of European Scottish / Irish / British with a heavy sprinkle of Nevada (Specifically: "Nuh VADD uh" , and NOT: "neh VAWD uh") for garnishment.. And there you have it folks - A recipe for this quite perplexing accent, of which this man alone orates with fluently, as identified by my discerning ear..

Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Excellent video Ombio! Bravo! I can tell you with confidence the larger stones are well over 12000 years old and the reason they stopped was due to the flood. They kept a record of their accomplishment in making/moving/hoisting/aligning those giant stones…and I will post a video soon showing exactly that! Click on my playlist to see other 12000 year old stones that tell their story. I am the Last Natufian! Cheers!

If each monolith weights an average of 800 tonnes, you will need at least 13 of the biggest human hydraulic cranes to attempt to move a single stone. No way ropes and wood will even move these one foot. I was in Jerusalem at the bottom of the temple. The same architecture was used. Forget about ropes, wood, chains, etc. You have those layers of petina growing on these stones. That takes thousands and thousands of years to grow. The only ancient document, that I know and talks about these, are the Sumerian tablets. Stichin did a lot of research on this. His books are not perfect, but do help.

no Romans built the Temple by the time Roma was born the Temple was already toppled down and got covered with dirt and ashes this happened during the Exodus when the Israelites were leaving ancient Egypt and coming to the land

The holes in the blocks are probably how the machining tools were mounted to shape them.