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Colossal remnants of the Sun Temple, grandest of antiquity, Baalbek, Syria
Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman, 1843-1930
The remaining columns of the massive Greco-Roman "Temple of the Sun," which at various times was used to venerate Helios and Jupiter. The temple was built on the site of an older, Canaanite temple to Baal.
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