s already onsite?
Even the fifty-four enormous yet typically
Roman columns from Aswan granite,
which had once surrounded the courtyard, of which six are still standing
may be pre-Roman, but later recarved in the Roman style. Despite being as
magnificent as they are, the spectacular and unprecedented construction
achievements at Baalbek were not heralded to the world as its own by the
proud and glory hungry Rome. Why not?
Making such a claim would have been impossible, if the world already knew
about the awesome Baalbek ruins, of course. If Roman and other writers had
failed to mention the great Baalbek blocks, they were in
amazing sync with
the modern day's attitude.