5. The Stones of Baalbek were NOT lifted into position by alien anti-gravity technology or ancient giants
The Temple of Jupiter complex in Baalbek, Lebanon, part of the ancient city of Heliopolis – the City of the Sun – is an immense stone construction. Situated on a raised plaza erected 16 feet over a preexisting podium, the walls of the temple were built from an estimated 24 stone monoliths weighing at least 330 tons. Perhaps most impressively the trilithon, a row of three stones supporting the western wall, are each measurable at over 62 feet long, 14 feet high, and 12 feet in breadth; the three stones weigh approximately 880 tons a piece, and rest upon foundational stones themselves weighing 350 tons each.
Although construction on the Roman temple began roughly three decades before the start of the Common Era, some academics have asserted the blocks were not in fact cut by the Romans but rather predate even Alexander the Great when he founded Heliopolis in 334 BCE. This uncertainty regarding the provenance of the stones, in conjunction with their immense size and weight, has resulted in numerous ancient astronaut theories regarding the construction of the site. Among these include Georgio Tsoukalos’s and David Childress’s contention that the stones were manipulated by alien assistance, employing such methods as anti-gravity technology and acoustic levitation; it has also been proposed that the stones were the work of extinct giants.
It is important to note that the Temple of Jupiter at Heliopolis, the largest dedicated to the deity in the Roman Empire, was not constructed overnight and instead took over three hundred years to complete. Secondly, although the alien architect theorists are correct that an individual Roman crane could not lift a stone of such weight, there is no evidence to suggest they did not simply use more than one crane. Most importantly, it is widely suspected the location itself was specifically chosen by the builders to enable the unique stone sizes. Situated downhill from the nearby quarry in which the stones originated, it is possible no lifting was even required as after being cut stones could be simply slid down to the construction site and into place.