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Here we will talk about the megallides. There was 27 blocks they use it in this area. But

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those megallides is not existing anymore because in the medieval period they will

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not form it in the fortress and they would take out the will use all those megallides.

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There was nine blocks here for 1,000 ton each one. They would use it for the fortification

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and to build some towers in the corner.

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That was so huge. Yes, one, two, they had third and four.

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So this is the Venus Temple and the temple of the muses and it's a slightly lighter temple

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about the first and third century AD and was kind of added on really to the main part of

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Bellbeck. So this was a much later side not really showing any major megallithic construction

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here. Just behind me here in some of the walls and either side on the west north and south

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walls. We'll block the size of the ones in the west of Wall and similar to the ones we

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see in the quarry. So this is not really well known but we'd be talking in the next

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but we've just given us this information. So we have to question what was going on here.

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We know even says on the sign that this was a neolithic period site originally. So the

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megallithic blocks, the west of Wall, will need probably the blocks in the quarry, will

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probably from the neolithic period. So we're just on the side, the temple of Jupiter here

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and you can see some mega blocks just making up the lower wall here.

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These are the megalliths that are remaining. These aren't the big ones. Even though these are

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very impressive but we're using 50 and 80 tons and you can see they're very well put together.

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The joining is immensely, immensely sharp even though there's massive amounts of weathering.

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So this is just shows more evidence of the megalithic foundations here at Ancient Bellbeck.

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Then we enter inside the court of Venus, six sides, then the court of sacrifice.

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We climb Jupiter temple here you will see the megallith.

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It's still the origin from the period. Then we turn around Jupiter temple to enter inside

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the back of temple and we will go out from one of those tunnels where in 1998 there is the

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tunnel. 1998 the prepared museum, it was also the statue outside so they created it and it's beautiful.

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It's one museum but it's was to see and the exit would be like from here that you saw it

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from those from there. So we're just here in the hexagonal area, the temple and the temple of Jupiter

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is like the head of the temple but what's interesting about this is that at least 2000 BC this whole

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platform here, although the temple itself was built in the second and third century. So we're seeing

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the lower level here as much more megalithic foundation we'll see more as we continue through the site.

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So before Rome in the first century we are in 2000 BC. For the finishing of

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course there will be a sanctuary here for a god made the call it the Balhada. The Balhada was the god

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of fertility represented with the whip and the lighting and near to the Balhada there was two bulls.

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The bulls is a symbol of also fertility and foreigners from the finishing that the Roman

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they would use it later to represent it with Jupiter. So we're just inside actually underground slightly

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in the Phoenician temple which is just past the hexagonal temple heading into the main construction

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behind us are the huge stones that were most certainly 2000 BC so 4000 years old but

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it's been known that this has been occupied for 7000 years and potentially a pre-fination culture

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were here possibly the canonites were the early Phoenicians were we were in earlier culture and

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there are direct connections between here the Ziggarav and Gabbakli Tepi with the work

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the geometric the Astrogeometry that's done by Howard Crowhurst was realized that

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these sites almost communicate with each other over vast distances using the same measurements,

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just of squares and angles and stuff like this so the fact we're finding earlier an early construction

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here does suggest it's all pre-roman and the Romans just built upon what was here. So you can really

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see the size here it would just be in a tall bar local expert here here that these are possibly

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pre-fination actually not for nature actually earlier than 2000 BC and it goes even further down

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we're not even at the lowest level here this is just one level and you can see the mega-lifix style

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of the blocks so potentially these are at the time of the first dynasty in Egypt before even stone

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hinge was being built and so on and so forth obviously they've made a retaining wall here

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but these are just massive they're not obviously as big as the the western wall the stones there

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are in the quarry but these are worth noting here just to get a centre size so I just

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work being down here this is all the area the pre-fination or Phoenician temple but both

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look how far this goes down right in the centre of it all the blocks here making up the

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foundations it's a massive mega-lifix platform so this is like 10 courses deep Brian Hays is just pointed

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out and you can see how deep it goes down there and over this side as well this is obviously partly

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full of rubble so you can see how much of a platform we're dealing with here I think our

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big this is stretching across the whole site with the western wall stones combined with this

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is just and the missing 1000 tons stones that surrounded the front of the temple this is really

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quite a remarkable achievement so this is the centre of the Phoenician temple even though there was

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earlier temple here and obviously the foundations even earlier than that and this is fascinating this

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is one a huge bowl like a potentially a light-bacian bowl or a sacred bowl or different things

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and different liquids were put in here so so everything here seems to be made a little thing everything

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super sized so they would give the name to the city they would call it ballback ball the god

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back the plane or the city the ball had that it was not alone after it will be a goddess and they

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were called a call it Artemis or atar goddess or a started or a star is depends in the cities

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the fruit of the ball had that and a starter or a star it will be sometime addonis

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pan it will be in the Roman period upload so you can just see a misunderstanding here it's just

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been pointed out to me by U7R we are who's with us on the Megalithamania chemical tour you can see

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some really good examples of Egyptian style tool marks here almost like saws diamond tip saws

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are kind of carved these out or high speed saws with water and sand but you can see the sharpness of it

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and you can see the smoothness of this here even in tollum eight times when this was supposed to

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have come from Egypt it still shows remarkable amount of symmetry perfection and high technology

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so whether this was evident here in the earliest stages as well which is highly likely

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it seems that from the very earliest times in ancient Egypt the technology was just part of their

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routine when it came to Masonry and it continued all the way up to the tollum aic times

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and beyond and I believe with the connections with ballback and the styles and even these as well

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even the earliest phase like the Phoenician temple the western wall and so forth there's probably

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a connection with Egypt when it comes to all the Masonry here whether they were sharing knowledge

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whether it came from the Bible lands whether it came from the Megalith building giants originally

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we just don't know but we're finding different areas of different high levels of technology here

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that bellback also have here and one of the stones what looks like a cord rail

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going all the way through there you can see the striations going around the circular

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impression there and we have these as well which clearly show very fine cutting of the stone

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again showing signs of very advanced tool making almost like modern style something that

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christana has been pointing out all over Egypt and Peru and other places

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so we can see here just on these rocks evidence of keystone cuts so we saw these in Egypt obviously

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but we know the Romans were using these as well so this looks like it was probably part of the

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Roman construction but you can see there's even metal still in this one so probably a later

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later part of the construction but still worth noting here so we now see them at bellback

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not just I've never seen these ones before so let's put it quite intriguing just to sort of

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get these on camera

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you more of the granite columns here these are the slightly smaller ones there are larger ones

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but 54 of these came from as one a cosmic number part of the ancient canon about the

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procession all numbers also working with some numbers of the cosmos here at bellback

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so we're just we're just so you have to just show in us some very special couple of pieces of stone

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here at the quarry sorry at the main site of the same kind of stone that we actually find

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version of it that we find a stone hinge that is a well that is amazing look at the color of

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that

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well it was widely used during the Roman Empire of the archaic each according to the writings of

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what I mean the vessels the very advanced machine in vessels that we find in the site like the

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ones that were found under the pyramid and they were made from the same material and this exists

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only in the area of the eastern desert called the Jebaret Duchan which means the mountain of smoke

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so it's the only priest that they have that they find the imperial profiliary of it

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so of course there used to be more here or probably the recycling amazing so that is the same kind

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of stone as we find a stone hinge it's slightly different coloring and we have another piece here

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so we're just heading towards the western end of bellback you just see down here the huge

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huge stones making up the facing wall of this side of the temple here

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so we're just walking into the museum part of the site now and you can actually see

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this is still a main galithic walls even as you head into the museum so that's quite impressive

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so the name of bellback is a kind of cannony origin probably means a bar of the spring

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you know bar was one of the ancient gods and it just suggests the pre- Roman origin of this cult

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but the bellback name was only really used from the fifth century AD and the fact the several sites

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of the northern becker mentioned in the Egyptian text from the second millennium BC believe in the

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second dynasty does suggest that this area was known about most certainly we know that because

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King Kaz Emuie from home compiless was evident here and he was a giant remember so the giant

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connections are here even from Egypt but there's more really from the Bronze Age from 2000 to

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1500 BC all over the place with even burials from that that it's been used right up until recent times

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so here we are the classic Fall and Pillar just on the south side of the temple here

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the backest temple which is immense and it has some of the most impressive relatively modern

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modern Roman stonework that we'll see inside in a moment as well we'll see up on the roof there

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absolutely stunning but even seems like even in Roman times and you exactly what they were doing

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so like traditions that get passed on from one country culture to another we have like with the

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Keystone cut the work and the granite and it's the high quality high technology stonework

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so it's just interesting to see all different phases represented here at Bellbeck obviously

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what we're here for the extremely large stones the 400 tons 800 ton stones and the 1000 ton

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1200 400 ton and 1500 150 tons stones in the quarry a more important in a way because we're here

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from a megalithic perspective looking for evidence of megalithomania in the ancient world in the

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ancient level and here in Lebanon at Bellbeck

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this is like the famous doorway here at the backest temple Bellbeck absolutely stunning

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even though this is probably Roman early Roman probably from the Tolamate times

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so we're here in the temple of Beckus and the most amazing thing about this is not only the

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stonework but this huge doorway you can see behind me here which is incredibly well done

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even though it's done by the Romans that's me you know some of the things they did

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were remarkable probably based upon earlier cultures, technologies and ideas because I used to

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simulate other cultures into their construction they think it's dedicated to Beckus who was

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like the divinity dedicated to wine because they produce a lot of wine in this part of the world

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but it's just an immense sight and probably built underneath this is the mega platform or at least

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part of it that made up the earlier temple here at Bellbeck and we're going to be coming back here

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though so if you want to join us to explore some of the largest stones on the planet as well as

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one of the most ancient the occupied centres at Bibloss many other sites museums

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get a taste of the culture this is the tool to come on here with megalithomania we'll put

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now everything you need to see high technology incredible megalithic stonework and much, much more