Manky Monkey Motors

Not very 'Arty', but interesting.

The temple of Jupiter, in Baalbeck.

The three longest blocks are over 800 tons each, perfectly squared off. Apparently they could be cut today, but no one could lift them into place.

Also interesting - where IS Baalbeck?

Amazing what can be achieved with a few thousand slaves eh  ;)

could do with some of them to build my workshop lol ;D ;D ;D ;D

Wow that must be a serious workshop  ;D ;D ;D

Want to turn the whole driveway at the back of the house into one workshop. Last time I measured it was 22 foot x 12 foot

Knicked from Wiki.

Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك‎) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 metres (3,840 ft), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, then known as Heliopolis, was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is Lebanon's greatest Roman treasure, and it can be counted among the wonders of the ancient world. It contains the largest and most noble Roman temples ever built, and they are among the best preserved.

The site I was looking at is all about objects and places which don't fit in with established history.
Apparently the romans built the temple on top of the much older blocks (below the white line) which had been there for a long time. To back this up they say that the big foundation stones are more eroded than the smaller upper stones, which should not happen if they were all laid at the same time.

Oh well if you'd said Heliopolis in the first place...........

Where?

is that where they invented "helicoils"????????????  ::) ::) ::) ::)

I thought it was where the Police in (flyng) choppers came from.....   ::)  (I'll get me coat....)

I`m with you Tony............where are we off to now??? ;D ;D ;D ;D

ahhh   Bekaa Valley of the very small people   :P

I thought that Heliopolis was where helicopters are made.