The Antikythira Device is very much a puzzle in itself but another very intriguing part of the
puzzle is this: For this kind of precision machined instrument to even exist, it means that there
must also have been an equally sophisticated machine on which it was made, yet we have no
record of such a machine ever existing and no hint of any such capability has ever been found, so
who made it – and how?
Baalbeck
Still many other, even more wondrous things were achieved in times long past.
In eastern Lebanon lies a city called Baalbeck that can truly lay claim to some of the most
spectacular ruins on earth: The ruins of the Temple of Jupiter (fig.29).
Now in attempting to identify the true origin of the constructions at Baalbeck we are told by
Academics that in 27 BC, the Roman emperor Augustus supposedly came to the rather
unfathomable decision to build what is absolutely and irrefutably the grandest, mightiest and most
lavish temple built in of all antiquity and to do so in what is quite literally, the middle of nowhere.
The ruins at Baalbeck are absolutely massive with its huge courtyard constructed on a wide
platform that is still retained by three huge walls. These retaining walls contain twenty-seven
limestone blocks, larger in size than those that can be found anywhere else in the world. Each of
the blocks in these walls weighs in excess of 300 metric tons, however there are three blocks in
the wall that, weigh in at over 800 tons each. This trio of blocks has gained world-renowned and
are collectively known as the "Trilithon" (fig.30}.
The Temple of Jupiter really is one of the most impressive ancient Temples in the world. It
measures 88x48 meters and stands on a platform or podium reached via a wide stairway that can
also only be described as truly monumental. The actual Podium rises a full 13 meters above the
surrounding terrain (fig.31).The Trillithon in the retaining walls are three of the four largest stone
blocks ever hewn.
Fig.29Now if we really think about all this and consider events within the officially accepted
academic framework that we are given of history, the site chosen for the Temple of Jupiter makes
no real sense at all and we can find no apparent or obvious rhyme or reasons Augustus may have
had for selecting the site at Baalbeck for such an elaborate temple.