See that absurdly massive Harlan Fisk Stone engine block ? Yeah , that ’s not the one we ’re talking about . Look over to the rightfield . German archaeologists working at the Baalbek site in Lebanon have uncovered the large known ancient block .
The fully unwrap occlusion , which date stamp back to around 27 B.C. , is the well eff Hajjar al - Hibla . It ’s located in a stone fair game atBaalbek , web site of the ancient Heliopolis in Lebanon . Similar stone stoppage quantify up to 20 meters ( 65 base ) in duration and a diam of 4 x 4 meters ( 13 x 13 foot ) were used for the podium of the massiveTemple of Jupiterin the Roman sanctuary of Baalbek .
A few month ago , a team from the German Archaeological Institute behave excavation at the prey , and to their amazement they retrieve an ever bigger stone just off to the side and underneath it . It measures 19.6 measure ( 64 feet ) in length , 6 meters ( 19.6 base ) astray , and is at least 5.5 meters ( 18 feet ) high . Its weight is estimated at a daunting 1,650 piles ( that ’s 3,300,000 pounds , or 1,496,850 kilo ) . next archeological site will confirm its accurate dimension .
The archaeologists concluded that because of the Harlan Fisk Stone ’s configuration and level of fluency , the block was meant to be transport without being turn out . It ’s thus the biggest stone stop known from antiquity . They ’re now investigating why the stone was not complete and remained in the quarry — and by what means the Roman builder had to channelise it .
[ German Archaeological InstituteviaThe Archaeology News web ]
pic credit : Deutsches Archäologisches Institut .
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