Search Results: Baalbek

Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, north of Beirut, in the Beqaa Valley. Inhabited as early as 9000 BCE, Baalbek grew into an important pilgrimage site in the ancient world for the worship of...

Ruins of Jupiter Cathedral and Cathedral of Sun. Painting by Vasily Polenov (1882).

Home to some of the Middle East’s most majestic ancient ruins, Lebanon has a rich and varied heritage with over 5,000 years of recorded history. Over the millennia, different conquering empires have left their footprints on the architecture...

The so-called Stone of the Pregnant Woman at the ancient quarry near Baalbek in Lebanon is one of the largest stone building blocks ever carved by human hands. It is 20.76 m (68.1 ft) long, 4 m (13.1 ft) wide, 4.32 m (14.1 ft) high and weighs...

Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, in the northern part of the Beqaa Valley, a fertile area with plentiful springs. First settled at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE, Baalbek was an essential...

Detail of the cella of the Bacchus temple in Baalbek, Lebanon which dates to the end of the 2nd century CE.

An overview of the Great Courtyard of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Baalbek (Heliopolis) with two monumental altars and two water basins within a porticoed enclosure. It covers a vast area of some 134 m by 112 m (439 ft by 367 ft...

The temple of Baachus at Baalbek (Modern Lebanon), ca. 150 CE.

The so-called Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek (modern-day Lebanon). Recently redated to the 3rd century CE, it may have been used for the imperial cult, in addition to the veneration of other gods such as Bacchus and Venus.

Temple of the goddess Venus in the Baalbek temple complex, Lebanon, early 3rd century CE.