New megaliths of Baalbek

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Baalbek is a city in Lebanon where the largest bricks in the world (known to me) are actually used in construction. Weight is about 1000 tons. The most famous of them is the South Stone. Everyone loves to be photographed on and around him.

An amusement park in Switzerland even made a visual illustration, where about 20 reduced copies of modern cranes were placed around a reduced copy of this stone, which together could somehow lift this megalith.

Here is the place where it merges with the rock:

They began to cut it out of the rock, but did not finish it. And concrete has nothing to do with it. So tell Igor Davidenko and those who believe in the concrete version.

Less well known is the second unfinished brick from the Baalbek quarry, from which someone later chopped off several small blocks:

These bricks have been cut down, transferred over a kilometer distance and tightly inserted into the walls of the megalithic structure, so that it is not possible to stick a needle between adjacent bricks:

All these megaliths of Ballbeck are known to the civilized world for more or less the last 150 years since the appearance of photography in the middle of the 19th century.

But, in the summer of 2014, a breakthrough occurred, which is still little known even to those who are interested in these issues. Which prompted me to take up the pen.

German and Lebanese archaeologists finally decided to look under the South Stone, began to dig and dug at least 2 more bricks of even larger size, weighing up to 2000 tons:

And this is not the most interesting thing. It turned out that the famous South Stone was most likely cut off from the bottom of the rock by a horizontal cut. The cut line was exposed when the soil layer was removed under the stone:

Maybe, of course, this is just a line only around the megalith, but not through, no one has yet checked whether it is through. To check it is necessary to raise this brick with a jack from one end, which is quite realistic. There are jacks for hundreds of tons.

But I can't imagine how this horizontal cut along the stone could be made. The first thing that comes to mind is that two people will stand on opposite sides of the stone, pull a string or cable and start sawing, passing along the stone. But how to maintain a straight line? Then you need to stretch the guides along the megalith, and 2 carts with a string stretched between them will ride along them. If the string breaks, you will have to re-saw from the beginning. To avoid this, it is necessary to make a thick cut and lay some kind of support so that a gap remains between the surfaces, and one end of the string could be pushed into this gap. But where did you go after the whole process of backing up? Maybe they were already flattened and rotted, or they were made of ice and already melted and absorbed. This is my very approximate fantasy, I do not pretend to be correct. Just thinking out loud. Suggest your versions in the comments, The second version is high-tech. Andrey Sklyarov on the last expedition to Baalbek in March 2014 saw an amazing cut of zero thickness. Moreover, not end-to-end !!!

Most likely, it was made by a beam cutter of an unknown high-tech design. Such a beam could well have made an undercut under this megalith.

All this is discussed in detail on the LAIKR forum (Laboratory of Alternative History except Russia)

Leo Slim