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Make an Unlikely Royal Visit to The 10,000-Year-Old Baalbek! Published April 22nd, 2021 - 09:34 GMT
Ancient Roman temple of Bacchus (Shutterstock)
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Although the Emperor spent just a few waking hours in the ‘City of the Sun’
In 1898, an unlikely royal visit was made to the 10,000-year-old city of Baalbek, a jewel in the crown of Lebanon’s archeological history.
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As part of his grand tour of the Orient an expedition that involved 100 coaches, 230 tents and 10 guides the last emperor of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and his wife Augusta Victoria were awestruck by Baalbek’s famed Roman ruins. Although the Emperor spent just a few waking hours in the ‘City of the Sun’ his last stop before heading back to Potsdam via the Port of Beirut – he was so captivated by what he witnessed that he decided to commission German expeditions to excavate the site.
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it has long been in ruins as. the art craft it by the sculptors of antiquity lies in fragments on the ground. we wander amidst the ruins and find them quite prodigious wrote the great french novelist was stuff flow back when he visited the orient in eight hundred fifty. prodigious indeed doffing all around them the pillows of the temple of jupiter are three times as high as those of the parthenon athens. this is the roman past in today s arab world what was then the province of asia the inscriptions cut in stone were intended to last forever.
than two hundred years. construction of the temple of jupiter alone took fifty years the entire lifespan of a mason for fifty years the blocks of stone were cut the panels smoothed to shape the capitals caught from the stone. this is the largest stone on earth it weighs close to a thousand times it s within sight of the temple but probably older than the room inside. and the foundations of the erstwhile temple of jupiter there are three huge blocks of stone how were they moved what mighty buildings stood in this place before those the romans built to this day we do not know the onset.