Baalbek

Baalbek

Are Baalbeck in Eastern Lebanon, is an relic of the Roman temple, said Hassan Mohammed Marwa of his alskskih student and researcher in archaeology. The Phoenician city of Baalbek was established by the Phoenicians. To worship (hubby), the Sun God, until occupied by the Greeks in 331 BC, where they changed their name to (Heliopolis) or (Sun City), became a Roman colony in the era of the Emperor (aokostes) in 16 BC. During the 300 years that followed the occupation of Romans to Baalbek, they built three temples, and fenced it with a wall built of stone giants. Rock cut temple building of the rocks of the southern side of you, there is a huge rock has been cut by more than 2,000 claims (rock, pregnant women), more than 21 meters and weigh over 1000 tons. For centuries, the temples of Baalbeck, buried under the rubble, where she was the first attempt to retrieve and study in 1898 m. By the German mission, followed by the French mission in 1922 and then completed the Lebanese Directorate General of antiquities to the effects of Baalbek. The Temple of Jupiter Airlines is one of the most important temples of Baalbek, and work began on its construction in the last quarter of the first century BC and continued until the year 68 ad, and neighbouring Temple (Bacchus), and soon the two circular building named Temple (Venus). But in the year 313 ad, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Emperor Constantin closed temples of Baalbek. During the Islamic conquest in 636 CE, was the protection of these temples and rename to (the Castle), where the label is still used until now. In the thirteenth century a.d. torrent in the city of Baalbek which resulted in the deaths of thousands of city residents in the 16th of may in 1372 a.d. which led to the disappearance of many homes and businesses that were dumping as a result of a flood. Episode torrent. Since the afternoon of Tuesday 16 may 1372 sq. to the sky pitch black color clouded Baalbek which resulted in blocking sunlight that startled residents of the city of Baalbek and at the beginning of the afternoon prayer, where worshippers were at the mosque began to Thunder and lightning they unstable this small city and after about half an hour, residents came out to listen to weird sound source is similar to the sound of Thunder as the surprise 13 m-high torrent plunged homes and businesses with large stones and silt and Wenge this incident But an elderly man as he sat in the dining and is a blind man and a little boy aged 4 months in a small wooden addition to choose from was residing in the highest region of the victims were worshippers.

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