Tagged “temple”
Göbekli Tepe
How did hunter-gatherers with no metal tools, pottery, or agriculture organize the labor to quarry, move, and raise multi-ton carved pillars, and why?
c. 9600-8000 BCE (Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
The Baalbek Trilithon
How did Roman builders quarry, move, and set three roughly 800-tonne stone blocks into a temple podium wall with such precision, and why did they cut blocks so far beyond what the structure needed?
1st century CE (Roman, atop an earlier tell) · Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon