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So just behind me, if you can see here this huge

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medalistic tune, it's actually the tomb of Hiram who were supposed to be the ancient

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king of Taya, which is this coastal Phoenician city and he dated he lived around

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the middle of 900 BC. So I see it about 3000 years old although it could be

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much older it could be canonite, it could be an earlier Phoenician origin but

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many other tombs like this apparently that have now been destroyed in the area

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which were originally thought to be Byzantine but Hiram he was one of the

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rulers of the Phoenicians in this area and the great city of Taya the Sidon

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just north of hillside on. There's also obviously we have the further north

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we go we have Bay Route and Balbec and Biblos, quite far up north but this is

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interesting because this has many very large mega-lithic blocks which we

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don't find so much in the southern part of Lebanon here so the fact that it's

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here and you can see the old illustrations but you can see some of these blocks

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are huge and then the one in the middle at the top there must be what 50-60 tons

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there's nothing compared to Balbec of course which is a whole different level

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of mega-lithic construction but we wanted to check this out it's about an hour and

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a half north that's how an hour and a half south of Bay Route just along the

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coast you have to come in land a bit it's just by the side of the road surrounded

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by other ruins it's we'll have a look at in a moment but it's kind of just

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been left to rock really but nonetheless here it is let's take a closer look just

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in land from the great Phoenician city of Taya we have this so we have some you

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know larger blocks on the bottom but at the one in the middle at the top there

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is a real interest because that's kind of almost like a bowelbeck style and that's

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huge that alone is you know worthy of a visit and you can just see it's

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probably quite neatly cut and so this is a hole it goes down underneath the

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tomb of Hiram now we can't really go down there but this is a deep cup hole

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this is clearly ancient and this is like a massive underground tomb probably

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where the bad body was buried

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we look around the area just directly so where JJ is standing over there there's

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blocks all over the place I get up a little bit higher you can actually have a look

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so this is not just a tomb it's like a construction around this whole area so

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this looks like some kind of platform here like a medallithic platform that's

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been pretty much just debris grown over it all down here as well you see that

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blocks over in the distance there take a little looking at moment but a deep hole

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in the ground here with some rocks but yeah we're just a small tackle and

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Hannah and I think and there is there that's the main construction of Hiram's

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tomb and there was some debate people think it might be the Hiram that was murdered

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who was linked with the founding of the free mason but that's not really the case

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Hiram's and other king completely separate although the timing is

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interesting because the building or rebuilding of Solomon's temple was down

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around 900 to 1000 BC the time this was supposed to have been constructed let's have

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a little look here hopefully a car will be a yeah here we go we see more blocks in

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the ground here actually quite remarkable one it's quite large look at these this

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is interesting let's get over here so look you've got massive blocks just laying

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the bush here just next to the tomb oh my god look at this we've got like an

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actual other tomb here it's like a sort of dome in really and we've got other

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carved blocks here going all the way around this is probably part of the same

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Phoenician or canonite construction as the main structure over there by the

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road look at this I did not even know this was here wow this almost like it's

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carved out the bedrock it's really quite impressive wow construction has

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gone all the way around this area down here as well for what's that some kind of

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carving wow this is really interesting it didn't realize so this could be the

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same people who built Balbec which Andrew Collins and I now thinking it is the

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canonites the early canonites probably from around 2500 BC where they'd

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ever responsible for this site as well so we're just here and you can see more of

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these blocks quite large maybeolithic blocks just making up low apart of the

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tomb of here am area here and you're really quite interesting actually

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there's been some kind of excavation here you can see the way they've done

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the trenches there's more blocks just in here this one's been pretty neatly carved

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you see that here down here this is very much in the style of Balbec to be

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obviously a bit smaller actually some kind of t-shaped pillar over here

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they have a whole stone at least a cup mark on the stone here to have a whole stone

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at least a cup mark on the stone behind it it's a very interesting shape again

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we find another kind of t-shaped type pillar recumbent of course that is

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intriguing let's see if we can get in there to go back around the way we came

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I drove it this looks like a pillar from Gabbette Lutepis a T-shaped pillar one

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piece of stone that is quite unique and bizarre probably a coincidence but you

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can see the shape of it going along here the T part on the edge on the end probably

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just the coincidences are probably all recumbent they may have been upright

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I'm really not too sure and there's the great here-arms tomb of antiquity we've

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JJ just arriving and this is interesting because this pillar here is just

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reminiscent of the classic Beckley pillars but not quite the same obviously

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this whole area here is of interest and when you make a Lithamine

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act traveling in Lebanon if you go in here-arms too just remember to walk behind it

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and check out what else is there because there's always something to discover and

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we've seen group done so here today I came up upside down why is my camera upside down

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my camera is going upside down what the hell

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why is going upside down