
Roderick
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Rome kept receipts for its biggest lift, and it was not these stones. The 3 blocks in this wall at Baalbek, a temple platform in eastern Lebanon, weigh 800 tons each, and no surviving Roman record mentions them. Mainstream credits Roman builders of the 1st century AD, the same empire that documented its projects from roads to aqueducts. Each block is over 60 feet long and sits 20 feet above the ground. 🔹Rome's largest temple 🔹6 columns still stand 65 feet 🔹A 1,000 ton block still in the quarry 🔹A 1,650 ton block dug up beneath it in 2014 🔹The blocks fit so close a knife cannot slide between Yet Rome did brag about a giant lift, just not this one. In 357 AD the empire shipped an obelisk of over 400 tons from Egypt on a vessel rowed by 300 men. These blocks weigh nearly twice as much. Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman historian, recorded that lift in detail, and Rome carved the story onto the obelisk's base. It even struck coins picturing the temple that sits on these stones. An empire that celebrated the smaller feat fell silent on the greater one. Either their greatest lift left no record behind, or it was never their lift. Which is easier to believe, that Rome forgot its biggest achievement, or that somebody else moved these stones?






















