The Ruins of Baalbec
, - A MYSTERY CITY OF ANCIENT SYRIA The picture above i. from an old steel-plate engraving, depicting the ruins of the ancient city of Baalbec " r n d or.h" ruin. »• they .ppo.r now I. confined in Mr. H. V. Mo„o»', book. "In the Steps of the Master". — J The ruins of Baalbec on that bright spring afternoon lay in a mist of whits fruit blossom. Th rnlumns of the Temple of Jupiter and the great Temple of Bacchus stood against *h screen of the Ant.u-Lebanons, on whose bare flanks the snow shone like silver, the eme^ ' 0 f ancient buildings, they can be compared only with the Temple of Karnak at Thebes The ruins give an idea of the massive splendour of paganism. Many of the columns are of Eavvtian granite, and, it is said that it took over three years to transport them from the Nile to tfie Lebanon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 8 (Supplement)
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153The Ruins of Baalbec New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 8 (Supplement)
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