This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshiped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period. It retained its religious function during Roman...
Full episode can be purchased at www.ancientdestructions.com Baalbek was an ancient acropolis built out of thousand ton blocks. Did Jupiter or Baal cause it's destruction...
Baalbek, in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon, contains some of the most impressive Roman temples to Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus. I filmed this in December...
