The Baalbek complex in Lebanon has long been considered an ancient legacy of the "gods" with full rights, which at later stages (including Roman) underwent only further processing and repair, while the construction of structures in giant blocks was carried out here even before the Flood. The joints between trilithons, between which even the finest sheet of paper does not fit, is a Baalbek parable in the town. But there are other traces of high technology …
These are rectangular grooves, which are somewhat randomly located on large blocks. There are no recesses on the trilithons, but there are smaller stones - on those on which the trilithons are laid.
The holes are quite large, but appear as black dots in the photo.
All blocks with grooves are clearly unfinished, unfinished. After examining all three walls, it becomes clear: the recesses were removed after the stones were installed and adjusted, and they were removed with a significant amount of stone. Most likely, this can explain the absence of grooves on the trilithons - they were probably in the final stages of processing.
Fig 17. Unfinished block under trilithon (there are square holes and chamfer remnants)
The fact that we find semi-processed or even untreated blocks suggests that at some point the work was stopped, most likely, that the complex was abandoned for some reason even at the construction stage.
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By the rectangular grooves, we can say with a great deal of confidence: they had a technological origin associated with the manufacture, transportation, installation or fitting of blocks, and then they were cut off so that the view would not be spoiled.
The ancient "gods" easily filled with such "stones" …
Great attention should be paid to the joints on the blocks. What is special about the joints? Yes, everything. First of all, these are joints of practically "zero" thickness - neither a needle nor a candy wrapper can be stuffed into them. This is usually enough to talk about high technologies that are impossible (or very difficult) to reproduce today, but in Baalbek we have not only perfectly fitted blocks, but also unique chamfers.
The chamfer on each block consists of five elements with different processing
In addition to the joint, we observe a complex chamfer (even several nested chamfers) with processing characteristic of each of them.
At the place of the vertical bend, the chamfer also bends, showing by the view of the corners that no one exactly got it by chipping it - it looks more like a drum grinder.
Bevels themselves are not uncommon in stone construction. Many Roman buildings in Baalbek, megalithic and ordinary buildings around the world have chamfers on the blocks, but there are none like those between the stones of Baalbek. Like polygonal masonry, such traces can be considered high-tech detectors.
Block, underneath there are scratches on the base, and below the plane is probably prepared for the next block
The contrast of three-meter scratches and block adjustments to hundredths or thousandths of a millimeter is incredible. And understanding that these chamfers are traces of the fitting process, and not a decorative element, is even more impressive.
Measurements have shown that the altitude of the quarry is at least 20 meters lower than that of the laid trilithons. This means that during the transportation of the quarry - Baalbek, the blocks were lifted at least to the height of a 5-6 storey building. In addition, trilithons were not carved from the rock at the maximum height, but, on the contrary, from the depths of the quarry. All this tells us that the process of lifting the thousand-ton block did not pose any problem for those who built Baalbek.
Although even modern technologies are difficult when working with such blocks. Meanwhile, even the block that is directly under the giant "South Stone" (located in the pit) is not the lowest known trilithon. The block weighing more than a thousand tons is still at least 7-10 meters lower than the "Yuzhny" and is officially called "Vostochny".
"East Stone" lies in the lowest part of the lower quarry
All this directly speaks of the use of technologies that exceeded modern ones in their capabilities - especially in terms of efficiency.