There are multiple stories behind the name. However, this does not explain how they were then lifted in to place. The site sits upon a ‘tel’ or occupational mound 1150m above sea level, and has been inhabited since the Early Bronze Age (2,900 - 2,300 BC), with continuous occupation. Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. The Baffling Great Sphinx Discovery, Egyptologists Can Only Offer us Theories! The aim of this year’s excavations was to find new data about the quarrying techniques and the transporting of the megaliths. The two building blocks were presumably intended for the nearby Roman temple complex, possibly as an addition to the so-called trilithon, and are characterised by a monolithic gigantism that was unparallelled in antiquity. There lies the famous monolith “Hajjar al-Hibla” (Stone of the Pregnant Woman.) 6. http://hiddenincatours.com/baalbek-in-lebanon-insanely-large-stonework-of-the-gods/, 7. http://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10476358_10152597881907354_1191611450897823366_n.jpg - Facebook Post from https://www.facebook.com/Author.GrahamHancock. He... about Questing the Most Impressive Ancient Religious Temples in the World, about Finding Canaan: Ancient Roots of the Lost Phoenician Civilization, about The High-Tech Stonework of the Ancients: Unsolved Mysteries of Master Engineers, about How Much of What We Believe About Ancient History is Really True? Buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists uncovered the bones of a four-year-old child, comprising the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia. Together with another ancient stone block nearby, it is among the largest monoliths ever quarried. There still seems to be a healthy debate about this, so it’s understandable that giants, occult power and even ‘ancient aliens’ have been credited with such an achievement. Macrobius later credited the site's foundation to a colony of Egyptian or Assyrianpriests. Join us as we explore Baalbek and more in March 2018: http://www.khemitology.com/5-day-tour-of-lebanon-featuring-visits-to-byblos-baalbek/ ” (8). At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. Read Part 1 - Forgotten Stones: Secrets of the Megalithic Quarries. Also see: www.grahamhancock.com, 8. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/lebanonbaalbek.htm, Featured image: The newly discovered monolith sitting to the left of 'The Stone of the Pregnant Woman', Lebanon. As with many other sites around the world, I propose that these mighty monoliths were left there for a reason. The Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Arabic: Hajar el Hibla) or Stone of the South is a Roman monolith in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon. Some of the foundation stones that make up the main platform weigh in at around 800-1000 tons. There are many stone artifacts from the ancient world made from the hardest stone on the planet such as granite and diorite, which have been cut and shaped with such quality, precision and accuracy... A legend is a tale regarded as historical even though it has not been proven, and the term “myth” can refer to common yet false ideas. It would have been so much easier to use smaller blocks and put them together at the site. The main island of the group is known also as Tristan da Cunha and... American researchers have presented new archaeological evidence of what they think represents survivors from the lost Roanoke colony in Bertie County, Virginia, living among native populations. The name ‘Baal’ generally means ‘Lord’ or ‘God’, and to the Phoenicians it meant ‘Sun’. Image source . Why they decided to use stones of this size has baffled researchers for generations. Baalbek is officially a Roman temple that was built on the foundations of a much earlier site. [2] Others say the name comes from the legends that pregnant jinn were assigned the task of cutting and moving the stone,[3] while others say that the name reflects the belief that a woman who touches the stone experiences an increase in fertility. Neither of these stones made it to the main ‘Temple of Jupiter’, some 900 metres to the northeast, but some 400-ton and 800-ton stones did make their way to the temple, were raised 20 feet in to the air and were placed with machine-like precision into the foundations of this mighty ancient complex.