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Description: I decided to show the beauty of my country because since the events of last summer we only were able to see war image from Lebanon.

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Description: Video of Byblos, temple of Baalbek and the ruins of Anjar

Description: This is what a flame oven looks like when it is baking bread

Description: Interview with a Hezbollah terrorist captured by IDF in the operation of BaalBek.

Description: Round the world again with places of mystery and wonder, courtesy of Google Earth.This time...The Uffington White Horse (United States replica)The Blythe Intaglios, California.Altun Ha, Belize.Sacsayhuacman, Peru.The Temple of Artemis at Ephe

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Description: Israeli Special Forces Operations in Lebanon War 2006 (Audio Commentary)

Description: Visit us at www.vitalperspective.comThis is a video shot on August 2, 2006 of Israeli commandos attacking the Hezbollah terror infrastructure in an overnight operation in Baalbek. This remarkable video takes you through the entire operation.

Description: Visit of / Visite de / Besuch von / Visita de / Chiamata di de Baalbek & Anjarزياره بعلبك / Baalbekの訪問 / Baalbek의 방문 / 访问巴勒贝克 Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك‎) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is located at 34°00′22″N, 36°12′31″E about 200 km east of Beirut.At present, Baalbek serves as the primary center of the Shia population of the Bekaa Valley and one of the main training camps for the Hizbullah forces.Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a legion was stationed there. Work on the religious complex there lasted over a century and a half and was never completed. The dedication of the present temple ruins, the largest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of Septimus Severus, whose coins first show the two temples. The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla and Philip. In commemoration, no doubt, of the dedication of the new sanctuaries, Severus conferred the rights of the jus italicum on the city. Today, only six Corinthian columns remain standing. Eight more were disassembled and shipped to Constantinople under Justinian's orders, for his basilica of Hagia Sophia.The greatest of the three temples was sacred to Jupiter Baal, ('Heliopolitan Zeus'), identified here with the sun, with whom were associated a temple to Venus and a lesser temple in honor of Bacchus (though it was traditionally referred to by Neoclassical visitors as 'Temple of the Sun'). Thus three Eastern deities were worshipped in Roman guise: thundering Jove, the god of storms, stood in for Baal-Hadad, Venus for 'Ashtart (known in English as Astarte) and Bacchus for Anatolian Dionysus.Jupiter-Baal was represented locally (on coinage) as a beardless god in long scaly drapery, holding a whip in his right hand and thunderbolts and ears of wheat in his left. Two bulls supported him. In this guise he passed into European worship in the 3rd century and 4th century AD. The icon of Helipolitan Zeus (in A.B. Cook, Zeus, i:570-576) bore busts of the seven planetary powers on the front of the pillarlike term in which he was encased. A bronze statuette of this Heliopolitan Zeus was discovered at Tortosa, Spain; another was found at Byblos in Phoenicia. A comparable iconic image is the Lady of Ephesus (see illustration) (Robert Graves, The Greek Myths I.4).The extreme licence of the Heliopolitan worship of Aphrodite was often commented upon by early Christian writers, and Constantine, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica. Theodosius I erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupiter temple, as was Christian practice everywhere. The vast stone blocks of its walls were taken from the temple itself. Today nothing of the Theodosian basilica remains.Other Emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn. Nero (54-68 BC) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter, Trajan added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt. Antoninus Pius built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary's structures, for it was protected by the very rubble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture. Septimus Severus added a pentagonal Temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed an early Syrian role with her consort Adonis ('Lord,' the Aramaic translation of 'Baal.'). Christian writers competed with one another to execrate her worship. Eusebius of Caesarea, down the coast, averred that 'men and women vie with one another to honour their shameless goddess; husbands and fathers let their wives and daughters publicly prostitute themselves to please Astarte'. Emperor Philip the Arab (244-249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis— the hexagonal forecourt. When he was finished Heliopolis and Praeneste in Italy were the two largest sanctuaries in the Western world. (wikipedia)VALPARD FILMS http://valpardfilms.free.fr