One of the biggest feats of Roman ingenuity lies in Lebanon’s historic Bekaa Valley, home to the ancient city of Heliopolis, now Baalbek. Here, the 2,000-year-old Temple of Jupiter was built on top of ...

‘The Stone of the South’ at Baalbek, Lebanon is the largest worked monolith on Earth, weighing in at a staggering 1242 tons. It is even heavier than the ‘Stone of the Pregnant Woman’ which weighs an ...

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A local official said that during the conflict an Israeli airstrike landed "dangerously close" to Baalbek's UNESCO-listed Roman ruins, a revered heritage site with some of the largest and ...

Lebanon’s Civil Defense service says they have pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building that Israel struck the night before. Search efforts were ongoing Wednesday, and it was unclear ...

new video loaded: Dozens of Israeli Strikes Hit the Beirut Area and Eastern Lebanon The airstrikes caused damage in Beirut’s southern suburbs and in the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa region, ...

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