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Baalbek megaliths

Location	Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
Conventional date	Roman Temple of Jupiter complex, 1st century BCE to 1st century CE, with quarry blocks of the same project.
Alternative date proposals	Alternative authors: Megalithic podium courses belong to an older, pre-Roman phase [3]
What is measured	Quarry block about 1,650 t (found 2014); trilithon blocks about 750–800 t each. [1][2]

Home to the largest worked stone blocks known from antiquity. The image shows the 'Stone of the Pregnant Woman' in the quarry.

Claims about this site

Claim	Status	Verdict
Baalbek's giant stones are older than the Roman temple	Leading Edge	Open question

Sources

Archaeology Magazine news (2 Dec 2014). 'Biggest boulder' unearthed in Lebanon: German Archaeological Institute and Lebanese University work in the Baalbek quarry. https://archaeology.org/news/2014/12/02/141202-baalbek-biggest-boulder/ data
Archaeology Magazine (March/April 2015). History's largest megalith (Baalbek quarry, 2014). https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2015/digs-discoveries/leba… background
Graham Hancock, official site (books including Fingerprints of the Gods, 1995, and America Before, 2019; proponent of a lost Ice Age civilisation). https://grahamhancock.com/ proponent

Dates are summarised in our own words from the sources listed. Conventional and alternative dates are both reported; "measured" lists only dated or documented findings. Methodology.