Baalbek | Megaliths of the Giants | Exploring the World's Largest Stones in Lebanon | Megalithomania

A thorough exploration of three megalithic quarries at Baalbek. The main one contains the 'Stone of the Pregnant Woman' estimated to weight 1000 tons. In late 2014 a much larger monolith was discovered weighing in at 1650 tons that is now excavated. They look at another nearby area that has a stone weighing 1240 tons, and visit ancient quarries and caves that are on private land and not open to tourists. Hugh Newman, Andrew collins and Yousef Awyan look at the Biblical lore of giants who may have been involved in the construction of the main Baalbek Temple that is about 1 KM away. Hugh also discusses the idea that it was deliberately left there to mark the birthplace of the temple and the team suggest that the Romans may not have been the first builders here.
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[@ekschiz]

I am from Baalback... I am also a builder/architect and have worked around the world. Concrete and stone megaprojects (small scale) and regular builds: malls, buildings, houses. I also am a student of history and read about who academics "think" built the complex. They are wrong. I will not state the many stories and oral traditions from the locals about who built them because, in engineering and science, these stories mean diddly squat (I'm not saying they are wrong). I want people just to go there... the upper complex as well as the lower complex could not, I repeat, could not have been cut, sculpted, rounded, moved and placed. And yes Im talking about the lower megalithic huge base and the upper megalithic huge "temples" and complexes. I think, today, we only have about 8 machines worldwide that could do this work (cranes and pullies machines). In my opinion, every academic who claims is sure about who built Baalback has never painted a wall, renovated a house or let alone built one...

[@jamesn.economou9922]

Amen to that. The worst explanation, I've heard, is the dismissive "tools of the time" stuff. It's embarrassing.

[@kadeur2410]

هل توجد آلة في وقتنا الحاضر تقدر على رفع حجر وزنه 1500طن؟

[@ekschiz]

@@kadeur2410 يوجد بضع الآلات. فقط ثلاث او اربعة في العالم. نوع من الونش. وتأخذ ثلاث الى اربعة اسابيع لتحضير الونش للاستعمال. حتى الآن من الصعب جداا رفع هذه الاحجار. لهذا نستعمل الباطون (البودرة)

[@bacongrz]

⁠@@kadeur2410China has a crane for lifting 20,000 metric tons. Lifting is one thing but transporting is another 😮

[@ekschiz]

@@bacongrz yes. Recently built. Lifts ships and stuff. Very precariously.

[@gsalien2292]

I'm going all in and putting my money on Baalbek and it's quarry having been in use BEFORE even Gobekli Tepe! Spectacular video!

[@ChrisBV]

Archeology suggests occupation since 9000 BCE, which is after Plato's destruction of Atlantis (present day Santorini?). Gobekli Tepe is older. Gobekli Tepe is also near, in space and in time, with the domestication of wheat. Much earlier than Gobekli Tepe you are talking Ice Age and oat meal.

[@gsalien2292]

@@ChrisBV Mmmmmmm!!!.... Oatmeal!

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@@ChrisBV I highly doubt pre-Gobleki humanity was as nomadic and primitive as archaeology suggests it was.

[@ChrisBV]

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper I agree. The ancient cities are underwater. The question is, how did Lovecraft know?

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@@ChrisBV Hmm, well I'm not familiar enough with Lovecraft to know of what you speak of, but I do agree that we should be looking at an ancient coastline about 300ft below current levels. We have a tendency to congregate along coastlines, and I'm sure there's plenty of sites along the ancient coasts. Underwater archaeology of that scale may prove to be quite challenging, perhaps too costly even, and the reward may be nothing more than a news headline of "strange natural rock formations that look like megalithic monuments found off the coast of Egypt". Being under saltwater for 12 millennia would take its toll on a lot of tangible data, the carvings no longer visible, paintings vanished, nearly all organic evidence decayed to nothing...so unless a site is so well preserved that it's easily identified as a structure, the skeptics won't have much trouble writing it off.

[@transponderful]

Undoubtedly the best pictures i have ever seen of Baalbek, cheers Lads.

[@cfapps7865]

Thanks for the look around.

[@jamiee172]

The Nephalim giants quarried those stones.

[@daveagbulos3218]

Nephilim giants whose father were The Watchers fallen angels who possessed heavenly secrets and power on earth.

[@Thebes77777]

These Massive stoneworks of Baalbek, were cut and then moved with very Advanced (yet somewhat timeless) technologies, that the vast majority of mankind today would be absolutely bewildered by, and for the most part have no or little comprehension of.

[@Pauly421]

This was great! Best look at the Baalbek site I've seen. Very fascinating stuff! I must watch your updated video with better camera quality haha. Thanks for this :)

[@alanlloyd9986]

I think we are missing a big part of the human story Copper tools, rope n manpower is not enough to produce ANY of the megalithic structures

[@katalinjuhasz641]

NEM EMBERI ALKOTÁS... MIÉRT OLYAN NEHÉZ MEGÉRTENI??? DROTKÖTÉL???

[@Thebes77777]

A truly magnificent site, is Baalbek. Excellent doc. Thank you.

[@junkjunk2493]

good show hugh , thx for your work this helps us all understand more

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

The alignment is simply because of the grain of the stone, as well as size without cracks.

[@AncientHistoryCriticisms]

@20:00 I thought the exact same thing Hugh! The peaked ceiling, like a cleft in the bedrock, it is just like Nuapa Iglesias! Great connection.

[@SystemCrasher113]

Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@finndog2759]

Those stones are millions of years before the Romans

[@HiFiDaddy]

Un-damn believable! I keep thinking about all of the impossible stone work around the world and it is way beyond anything we can do today. It just blows my mind and comprehension all together!

[@ShyDog827]

Thank you Mr Newman for this amazing video. I’m a little late viewing this, but I have not seen anything else that compares to the magnitude of this site. This is most certainly another level of antiquity as you said.

[@katalinjuhasz641]

ÖZÖNVIZ ELÖTTI ÜRHAJO LESZÁLLO BÁZIS VOLT...

[@jamesn.economou9922]

This is a really great video of the giant stones at Baalbek! According to the ancient Greek philosophers, these stones, have always been there. In fact, Alexander of Macedonia, planned to build a palace on the very site, that houses, the temple of Jupiter. Of course he never made it back, but he planned to build on the pre-existing, megalithic stone blocks, upon his return. I think the abandoned blocks, were never used, by the Romans, because of their ridiculous size. It's a miracle, they weren't cut up, and re-purposed in antiquity.

[@TheFruitcake1983]

These structures were obviously built when there was a milder climate that allowed for a large population that was able to utilize a large amount of resources for construction. Then the climate changed, there were various cataclysms like earthquakes and floods (recently the deserts in Libya turned into seas) and everything fell into disrepair, other peoples came and started to build something there as far as possible. The excavations of the Wailing Wall showed that at the base there are the same huge trilithons.

[@jamesn.economou9922]

What kinds of large resources did they have? Maybe several hydraulic truck cranes, perhaps?@@TheFruitcake1983

[@TheFruitcake1983]

@@jamesn.economou9922 foods, ropes, logs, buffalo, etc.

[@jamesn.economou9922]

@@TheFruitcake1983 ropes and buffalos huh? Who knew?

[@jamesn.economou9922]

@@TheFruitcake1983 I'm sure they were able to produce, 2" stranded steel cable rope, for the buffalo to harness up to, and drag that 1000 ton stone, on top of the others. I think I'll stick with extraterrestrial building theories, thank you.

[@matteroff]

Luv ya stuff for about 7yrs nowadays. Legendary, & thanks 👍

[@raymondparsley7442]

Lest we get too big for our britches, take a look at this. The stones are smooth cut, which is another wonder really.

[@JerseyJimFish]

Balbeck might have the largest megalithic stones in Europe, but in Nanjing, China within the Yanshen Quarry, there are ACTUALLY "The largest stones ever quarried." (That we know of.) I thoroughly enjoyed the footage. Very well done sir!😁

[@legpol]

Jersey Jim Fish: 这个视频演的是「开踩」出来的石头。阳山却不是开踩出来的石头。而是个天然生就的大石头。从阳山开踩出来的石头却都是很小的石头。 这视频演的石头，却很可能是假货。你只要小心看仔细看，你就会看见石头腐蚀出来的洞孔。孔中有小石头。这种假石头，世界各国都有。

[@kaloarepo288]

Baalbek is in Asia(Lebanon) not Europe!

[@legpol]

@@kaloarepo288 : Welcome to participate the discussion. I believe the megalith is fake, it was built with cement concrete. My belief was based on the erosion that had made some cavities on the surface, while real natural stones will not erode like this.

[@kaloarepo288]

@@legpol I know Romans had concrete but how could they use concrete in this instance?

[@legpol]

@@kaloarepo288 : It seemed Lebanon's megaliths were reported to have been built by the Romans. If they did not use concrete in this instance, what else they used?

[@nancyvolker3342]

there are sites in central Russia with huge blocks maybe some day you guys can visit that area too

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

Gonoroshoria?

[@nancyvolker3342]

@@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS it could be i can never remember the name of this place but the blocks are out in the middle of nowhere buried deep very large blocks similar to these

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

@@nancyvolker3342 , New Earth lady, Mrs Sylvie , did a video on the place. There are larger cut stones in China as well.

[@nancyvolker3342]

@@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS yes she is amazing Vlad9vt is doing vids on these same sites as well

[@Bestcopied]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2jReH-QrZmkfs0

[@mikewilliams235]

Love these guys.

[@AncientHistoryCriticisms]

Fantastic video, thanks as always Hugh

[@crazya3466]

SO impressive and I seriously doubt Romans had anything to do with the platform, great vid Hugh, thx megalithomaniaUK.. cA

[@ukgcollection]

Great video, I can't afford to visit these places so it's very helpful to have a free guide around these sites, Much appreciated. Also wanted to ask, do you have any ideas about why them 2 massive stones are quarried in the same orientation? Is it the way the grain/layers of the rock go or are they pointing a certain direction?

[@watcherspirit2351]

Great video! Thanks! I reckon you knew that Grendel, the giant who fought Beowulf, was connected to Cain.

[@mariakelly90210]

I did not know that! Thanks for the info.

[@squidatsea]

I'm surprised it doesn't have modern day spray paint all over it.

[@sangeetawesley6683]

Fascinating 💖

[@babbalonian2]

21:49 "We're comparing this quarry to the joint I have in my front pocket, its amazingly similar"

[@davidc4996]

Thanks for video

[@AshokJayanthi]

Amazing. This is 3000 to 4000 + years old and done by local civilization.

[@katalinjuhasz641]

NEM HELYI, KINTI ÜRBOL

[@tonysaint6749]

wow, mind blowing. i want to know why, how, when, by who, what for . it was not for naught, who is working on this. greetings from australia🙂

[@rouser301]

Challenge: chug a beer every time he relentlessly repeats the phrase largest cut stone on the planet.

[@angelbreath6539]

Fascinating stuff, thanks uploader.

[@rajiv6336]

The uprights indicate the original height of the bedrock and how much of the bedrock has been cut out.

[@sevenirises]

Great video views and exploration. I believe the age of these sites go back much further than they say. I don't k now how the pregnant woman stone was cut but something I saw in a video has challenged what I believed about it. In the video named "I Discovered Impossible Geometry On Google Earth" by the POV channel he comes across stones this size on the top of a mtn in Utah. Now I wonder are they connected somehow in their creation?

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

The columns were spun on a lathe. The holes from the chuck head are still there and easily seen as centered chuck mounting holes.

[@bradscanlon6592]

The dimensions of the column seem more compatible with some form of drill arbor. Although the difference between a drill and a lathe is arguably irrelevant when applied to such enormous and bespoke equipment.

[@newfreenayshaun6651]

A ridiculous amount of hand-sanding.....

[@Googlencraptubesuckabandonship]

Time stamp?

[@vicestrada3937]

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[@Johnepumper]

thats at least 15 -20,000 years of weathering

[@billcook7285]

🤔 I recognize that place. That's the quarry where Fred and Barney worked. And those cut out rooms, that was Mr slate's office. 🤭

[@manooch]

Wooden molds. 3:53 It is for many years when I see too homogenous pieces of huge stones in ancient structures, without any sort of mineral veins found in natural stones when cracked or cut rocks, it reminds me of molded blocks of concrete. It seems ancient people had more advanced methods of creating stones by molding than our modern concrete making. I searched the whole comments here for word "mold" , only one person was talking about what I say . His or her username is S. M. and commented like below: (you find that comment almost at the end of comments) 1 year ago (edited) "It is told that Egyptians invented a method to CAST this type of stones at the targeted sites not necessary to move. The Huge mega glass lens is used to heat and melt concrete material and pour into wooden mold and cast the stone. Please do research if same story. This was done as old as 5000 years ago"

[@elgriego331]

Maybe the blocks are angled because they slid down or toppled down from top of the hill? Maybe they stood straight up like the other twin stones.

[@blueindigo1000]

I wonder how they would have set up the necessary tackle to move that block? That would be one hell of an engineering feat in itself!

[@21LAZgoo]

@bina nocht we dont need no goofy aliens for acoustic levitation

[@michael7v6]

@bina nocht agreed! Unlimited manpower is the key. I don’t understand why people think it’s impossible. They know the columns at the pantheon were erected by men. This is the same concept just scaled up. I’m not saying they used the exact same engineering but rather something similar.

[@michael7v6]

Did he really say giants were real? WTF?

[@viketouliepienyu2421]

The Megaliths are certainly done by the Nephilims of the Bible and not by mere mortals of regular size. The Nephilims were men of great exploits .

[@mikepupillo2648]

It's a shame people throw trash. And the tourist money you'd think they would clear the site. And dig down to open the stones.

[@AncientHistoryCriticisms]

26:00 feels like the subterranean chamber of the great pyramid

[@jackiereynolds2888]

So today, - how many thousands of years later - just how-would you move (let-alone-manipulate) a piece of cut stone which is WELL-OVER 3 MILLION POUNDS ?

[@paulkeenan2691]

Book of Gilgamesh describes how went to the land of cedars ( lebanon) form his home in Urh ( Iraq) to create the monument.

[@warrenpeace6864]

Hi again, TY 4 what your doing I'm learning so much & would likely never be able to travel to these sites...on min 16:36 you mention 'Cain & a race of giants being wiped out by the flood.' it also says in the bible that the Nephilim/giants will be in the days after the flood...but Im specifically wondering if you know the verses where it talks about Cain being in Baalbek. Thx again U rock (pun intended)

[@TheDemonation13]

i picture the larger stones being cut with a giant tile cutter but it would have to be larger than the stones great video ty

[@ChrisBV]

We know that people were developing plants through cross breeding (maize, wheat). People noted the plants that grew out of rocks, and likewise developed rock carving chemicals that they used in their stone work.

[@TheDemonation13]

@@ChrisBV maze was only in the Americas dosent explain thousands of square miles of cut megalythic stones all over the world but could have been a world tec back then

[@ChrisBV]

@@TheDemonation13 yes maize was developed in Mexico and wheat in Turkey, which means people back then knew about biology. So it's not a stretch to think the megalith carvers would use plant chemicals to cut stone.

[@TheDemonation13]

@@ChrisBV personaly i think they had machines among other things was a different world that we wernt in.

[@TheDemonation13]

i agree there was no corn in eastern hymosphere but there is a carving of corn in an Eqyptian temple

[@ZiggyDan]

Maybe test pits dug around the stone dictate how it comes out, same as Aswan.

[@D4Disdain]

That's work of the Anunnaki. Is the quarry for the building of the plantaform were the Romans later build the temple to Jupiter. Has nothing to do with sacrad or temple. In Baalbek the Anunnaki landed their ships, very simple, very pratical.

[@bucksnortbumblefuk6872]

I think the guy over at unchartedx is spot on.

[@jonviol]

So has anyone explained in detail how these deadweight lithics were moved ? Gravity has to be overcome before sideways movement can occur . For something to move a force greater than its mass x gravity has to oppose . How was it done ? Surely it can be explained .

[@r2out]

I'm sure that someday humanity will be advanced enough to explain this amazing site. That will be the time that we'll know where we really come from as a species.

[@lordofthestings]

Haha, man has never, nor will ever move blocks of this magnitude. This age is nearly at its end. Jesus will return soon and set up a millennial reign and everything that's hidden will be made known.

[@jonviol]

@@lordofthestings Well if man did not move these chunks of rock then they had some pretty buxom woman about . Of course 'man' made and cut and moved these blocks , What has gone from the site is all the timber infrastucture ,levers,wedges ,bags of rice, ropes and rollers. Engineering science and schoolboy physics bud .

[@noneovyabuznisness6838]

The stone at Baalbek... 1650 tonnes 64' x 19.6' x 18' Total weight in pounds: 3637627 lbs Average weight an adult can lift: 155 lbs Two people: 310 lbs To lift, it requires 23469 people 64' x 19' = 1216 square feet, providing people are lifting even from under the rock, but to lift it from the ground, people have to gather around its perimeter. 166' total lenght around. If lifted from the sides, there are 141 grown adults per foot lifting the thing, from the sides. Try fitting that in one foot. If they move it, and they are under the rock, that's 19 grown adults per square foot. Again, try fitting almost 20 people in one square foot. That's basic, basic math. I'm sure we could factor in other elements or variables in the calculations. But to move a rock of this scale, with our size and strenght, takes the population of a small city. Humans such as us aren't the architects, nor are we the ones behind these things. If we are, we have forgotten incredible technologies.

[@jonviol]

This is an fully jaundiced one sided series of ideas which almost forces the reader to ignore the well practiced principles of the 'mechanical advantage '. The long lever ,fulcrum.and short operating beam, the round roller and the wedge have all been ommitted from your comments. These techniques are simple universal and require very little knowledge of sophisticated design and engineering . My belief is that these monoliths were cut with iron or steel chisels and mallets , wedged up onto wooden frames and supports, all now obviously removed without leaving a trace , a tiny bit at a time, until level and pulled over rollers on a perfect temporary wooden surfaced roadway using sisal rope and leather harnesses by teams of oxen or similar animals. By organising manpower and using the mechanical advantage of the lever/wedge /roller plus the construction in woodenramps and roadways these blocks were shifted slowly with care and few people, not a city's worth of labour . Exactly the same principles used in every human powered bicycle.

[@echoarcade_nj]

Great video and channel! My thoughts keep telling me that the attached quarried stones.. ie.."stone of the pregnant woman" is; the Romans commandeered the temple locations and built on top of the insanely large, megalithic foundation. No clue who the original builders were... but, I keep an open mind. Anyway, the quarry stones still attached may have actually been the Romans cutting the stone - trying to quarry it and add it to the site.. now with the romans installing the largest megalithic stones. However, they were only capable of the work we see now and had to abandon the project? ... if anyone has more detailed facts or theories ... I would love to read them! thank you!

[@spaced4448]

Could be a whole structure underneath that mound and probably is.

[@johncunningham6113]

at 24min. the carving reminds me of the rotund Vinous figures from Sardinia

[@AncientHistoryCriticisms]

24:40 stair step processing! Like Peru

[@jerrymiller2346]

What about Gornaya Shoria in Russia and Yangshan Quarry in China? Seems to me people should STOP saying first, biggest, oldest, and instead say, oldest known, or believed to be from x time period. Clearly there is no first society or people; ALL come from older societies that go back further than we can quantify.

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Those ones were only carved and not moved at all. Baalbek Temple has three 800 ton stones MOVED from this quarry & these were likely to be moved next, so the difference is - 800 ton stones were actually transported nearly one miles, raised 30 feet in the air and placed in a wall. Plus in the next video we show evidence of Canaanite foundations, earlier than the Romans.

[@hannobaalii_makendalii]

@@MegalithomaniaUK Logic tells me teams of harnessed megafauna beasts were used to move things around. Have a conversation with the Elders in the 'MAHOUT' Guild (elephant whisperers) communities of Asia. The legends they'll tell you should be interesting. Everyone overlooks them. i heard the last of the African Mahouts were massacred by the Romans around the time of the Nubian conflicts. Still researching. i asked Graham Hancock about Mahouts since his wife is east Indian. He said he'd look into it. Waiting.

[@ChrisBV]

@@hannobaalii_makendalii megafauna need mega rainfall to grow mega food. So that ends with the Ice Age. So far, Gobekli Tepe is the oldest post Ice Age site found. I haven't heard that they carved megafauna on their columns.

[@hannobaalii_makendalii]

@@ChrisBV Stop that habit of claiming 'oldest'. No more superioity gymnastics are necessary, if that's your subtle angle. The Genii is out the bottle on Melanoid Giants. Brian Forrester is doing good work, but his research is tailored for the Euro supremacist choir, not Melanated Amauricans, East Indians, Africans, Patagonians and islanders of Greater Melanesia (misnomered polynesians). Elijah Muhammad taught correctly that the Original Man has no birth record that we'll ever know for certain. Didn't Malcolm and Muhammad Ali teach that memo to those lucky few Euro-American students during their lecturing on multiple campuses? Who forgot already? Dr. Robert Schoch has dated the Sphoenix of Geeza at 200,000+ years. Go figure!!! The Giant Grimaldi Venus Qweens 25,000+ years old? Gunung Padang pyramound complex on Java Island Indonesia 25,000+ years? Borobodur is far older than is known. Those are Tirthankara statues, not Siddhartha Gautama! Rapa Nui & Nan Madol are far older too.

[@ChrisBV]

@@hannobaalii_makendalii 25,000 years ago is Ice Age. 12,000 years ago is post Ice Age. One thing to consider is that cave art found in Europe uses a set of 32 graphic symbols over a 25,000 year period (35,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE). Given that the cave art uses the same technology during that time, the symbols suggest the same language during that time. This culture also made ceramics and spun flax into linen, and dyed it. Unfortunately most of the evidence for this culture is underwater, since sea levels rose 400 feet after the Ice Age. Indonesia was an Asian peninsula during the Ice Age. What megafauna did they have?

[@williamferris4753]

I reckon the two withness was used as an anchor point to hoist or pully massive ropes......what u reckon?

[@katalinjuhasz641]

ÜRJÁRMÜVEK LESZÁLLOPÁLYA VOLT, KINTIEK ÉPTETTÉK, 250 EZER ÉVE

[@ricksanchez3176]

I'm not completely sold that those stones are setting in their quarry. I understand there is quarrying going on around them. I agree with you, the Romans did not have the UNESCO to worry about, if they knew it was there, they would have used it. Even if they had to cut it into smaller pieces.

[@dilbert0815]

I also have been thinking about this. The only plausible theorie would be that it was there at roman times but the romans would be afraid to cut to pieces to not enrage the suspected god-creators of the stones. On the other hand, if archeology suggests the romans would have changed plans and left it in the quarry ... this would also not have made any logical sense. The trilithons were placed in the foundation of the temple. If romans changed plans and continued with smaller stones they would shurely have rather cut the giant stone ant use the material instead of leaving it in the quarry. Considering the close location of the quarry it would also not made any sense to prefer other material. The romans would almost surely have used up the material in the quarry.

[@ricksanchez3176]

@@dilbert0815 Where are you getting that Romans feared offending gods other than their own? Who says what they cut up wasn't just as big? It's not there, what they took is moved. You miss the point, the Stone of the Pregnant woman had been I dentified as in situ, attached to the bed rock. It's not, there is another below it. What they identified as rock, was fill.

[@Eddienicholls]

Classic "measure twice cut once" if you ask me.

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

"No, you peasants! I said 43 LONG cubits, now this entire block is 6 long cubits too short and it's ruined. Swear to the gods, you're gonna be the first person we sacrifice if this temple ever gets finished."

[@feaskoh]

They weren't probably going to move that whole block but divide like slices to use for like symmetrical towers or what have you

[@SystemCrasher113]

LEGOS FOR THE GIANTS

[@isinche]

I saw JJ somewhere in the background, didn't talk to us.

[@io-REV3RSO]

merci ( :

[@paulmansell8393]

What do they weigh again?

[@sidilicious11]

That’s some ambitious stone carving!

[@Balthazare69]

Soon 100k, nice job :-D

[@JasonAdank]

Nephilim giants from the preflood era. Nuff said.

[@1okanaganguy]

So, they had the tech to move these but not the tech to do more sculpting than to chip away at the stone?

[@dai19721]

ah cracking loved it thanks.

[@mannumforce]

Those square holes in the blocks, I wonder what they were used for...

[@TheRuffusMD]

probably used for wood structures to be built , and inserted into the rock

[@GraemeWight-wx3xz]

Limestone is so recognisable. From the fresh pink to the orange brown oxidation patina.

[@diabalkarssifi8336]

It is useful to say that the one who built the temples of Baalbek could not be the Romans or the Greeks. Because the Roman antiquities are small in size and gigantic from the stones of Baalbek and the inscription as well. And I lived alongside these effects. In addition to the antiquities, there are caves in Baalbek that have not been discovered, and it is said that they are interconnected by internal corridors under the city of Baalbek and include the largest part of the city’s surroundings. . with greetings . The temples of Baalbek have nothing to do with what is said to be a palace built by Solomon for Bilqis. Where there is no basis for what is said in the history books. The validity of the existence of Solomon's Temple was not proven except by the legends of the Torah or any civilized structures in the land of Palestine.

[@katalinjuhasz641]

SALAMON SEM LÉTEZETT... BALBEK OZONVIZ ELÖTTI, NEM ROMA STB.

[@Goldbay]

18:58 circular saw marks?

[@dauber1071]

What an episode ✨

[@phrtao]

Some lovely footage. I doubt it was Romans or Giants that would have moved these huge stones. The hardest thing about moving these stones is getting the smooth transfer of weight - they are so massive that any impact due to a lifting mechanism taking up the strain would crack or at least chip the block. How would they release the stone from the quarry at an angle like that? (you could not take up the load evenly unless it was laid flat and the forces involved would be enough to snap the stone along any line of weakness or slide it out of the lifting mechanism, destroying the block) At the other end of the journey how do you release any lifting mechanism to place the block flat and precisely positioned in it's resting place without jarring and cracking the stone or the surface it sits on? In the modern world we have lifting mechanisms that can move this mass but not in one solid block of stone like this (they are used to lift large quantities of loose material or prefabricated structures designed with anchor points for the crane to attach to). These cranes are also huge (they need to be to cope with the forces involved) and require vast areas of flat solid ground to support them which is not available at this site. We could not do this job with 21st century technology !!

[@getredytagetredy]

There are no cranes that could pick that load... Nothing...

[@bryantc1701]

I think even giants would have a tough time lifting or moving stones like these

[@lavishabass9300]

@@bryantc1701 giants with the proportional strength of ants😳

[@bryantc1701]

@@lavishabass9300 strength like that doesn't scale up !

[@katalinjuhasz641]

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[@Maria-co9eg]

I just watched you on the Ancient Aliens season 19 episode about The Greek Gods!

[@AncientHistoryCriticisms]

22:25 Gebel el Silsila!

[@PaulHattle]

Maybe they where carved out at an angle to help stand them up like the other two. Maybe it was going to be a temple.

[@anthonyvita8753]

You're absolutely correct newer was built on top of older and I believe the older is the city of the nephilim

[@carlmorgan8452]

Sons of God built these / celestial angels created by GOD to serve GOD. One third fell to earth. Book of Job chapter 1 , and 38 speaks some on them.

[@itask106]

I don't think Romans had the technology they also altered history by plagiarism, but that's not important, it is the truth clear, concise, and appreciated by the student and the exponent alike. Just saying 😊

[@stuart6756]

Once you know why they are so big, then the creation of them seems childs play.

[@PN_Neril]

Decorated rocks, heavier than this, can be seen atop temples in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.

[@rik2034]

People have been walking on top of this for years

[@romaingelebart5390]

People dont realise how heavy 1000 ton is. Tahts 2000 times more heavy that the heaviest deadlift by a human

[@rogerh1658]

the big stone at yangshan of Nanjing China is 30x16x13 metres And strange enough there is no record in history how and when this was built

[@tacticalmattfoley]

Instead of "initiation chambers", maybe those stone carved shelters were just that....places to shelter from a storm.....not everything in the ancient world needs to be ascribed to magic...these people were much more practical than we give them credit....

[@darrenwoolley8736]

My gut says it's far older than Roman...

[@eddybrevet6816]

Possibility of how they were moved, road elevated in middle or bottom of monolith left uncut, sides left with overhang, providing leverage with use of long poles 4 lifting, teams of oxen also incorporated

[@joegagnon2268]

I’ve noticed a pattern of four or three hole’s of different sizes looking similar to where our fingers tip’s are positioned and what looks like "I know" hooves 🤨

[@HughEvans711]

Great to see the Megateam back at Baalbek. There seems to be more excavation at the quarry...

[@MB-oc1nw]

I wonder how many other blocks are under the dirt there and how deep it goes...it may not actually be a quarry. It could be the top of a badly damaged and buried structure

[@jaydee3965]

Academia isn't ready for actual Anunnaki cultural finds the public can visit, so they label it something safer. A quarry is much less interesting than the former palace of Gilgamesh.

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

Makes you wonder why so much of it isn't excavated, because it's pretty obvious there's more...especially given the fact that the land in question is the property of the government. Not trying to go down any conspiracy rabbit holes but there's obviously some pressure not to do any further research here.

[@jaydee3965]

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper They avoid conspiracy with security. The oldest tactic, even in Etruscan times.

[@danielciocilteu3545]

Ah yes, finally the voice of reason. As i said in previous videos, these giant stones could have been part of an ancient giant fortress and some of them have fallen down because of some ancient cataclysm. What if most ancient quarries are just ancient giant buildings that are almost completely buried by the periodic world floods? Many people just take the established narrative explanation for granted, but when we look at these ancient structures with our own eyes and ignore the narrative, a different picture emerges. To me, these rectangular stones were part of a massive citadel similar to the platform that remains at the temple of Jupiter. It fell into ruin and got covered by the mud of an ancient flood. These structures are from the ancient giant cycles, long before the romans came about.

[@osamakhwais6878]

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[@legpol]

I believe the erosion on the megalith appearing at 0:36 was telling us that the stone was made of cement as its crust and pebbles as its crumb. And then, at 4:52, the erosion on another megalith has made it possible for us to see the small pebbles. To confirm my crust- crumb idea, just paying attention to the pebbles will do. At 8:51, the erosion has revealed some plates by the right ear of the gentleman and the erosion on another stone in front of him has revealed a whitish crumb, possibly white pebbles. In short all megaliths are fake stones.

[@Hope-kx9lz]

It's exactly my theorie too.

[@legpol]

@@Hope-kx9lz : It is great to have company. I believe erosion defeats all claims of cutting, transportation, carving natural stones.

[@imacmill]

Why are there separate, massive stones? If stones can be 'poured', as you suggest, then why not pour one, massive stone in the shape of the entire structure? How would forms for each stone be created as a wall grew upwards? What would hold form materials on opposite sides of a stone in place so that the weight of the poured stone didn't blow them out and away from each other? Steel rods that span across a concrete form do it nowadays...what did it back then, and is there evidence of similar structural elements anywhere in your poured stones?

[@legpol]

@@imacmill：To pour separate stones was required by the original workmen. They poured the cement concrete over pebbles. The form was maintained by adding concrete one inch at a time and wait for the one inch to solidify, and then a second inch, and so forth. The end result was a hollow megalith filled with pebbles as shown in the video. Over time, erosion and decay of the concrete revealed the pebbles for people to see.

[@mikepupillo2648]

Even giants could not cut and cut such large stones.

[@veniqer]

Exactly. Because how big can a giant be, realistically speaking?

[@keithmclaren1972]

my biggest question is why so many times over engineered for what purpose perhaps to withstand great floods

[@rogerayoub8974]

I'm from niha Lebanon... We have also six stone too big to be transferred from place to another exactly same like that

[@davidosborne3187]

Very interesting. Well done!! Only thing is there is so much repetition in presentations.

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

Man, Yousef really gets around KZbin LOL

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@Rich Bee It would be interesting to see what he'd have to say about South America if he went.