Dan Richards

Now, I'm not a huge believer in ancient technology.

I'm sorry.

I'm not a big believer in ancient technology, as Jimmy's well aware.

Which is why it's important that you're here, because people are going to hear multiple perspectives.

Yeah, that's where I can tell you some things about Baalbek that are still interesting to me.

One of them is...

You don't see the Roman foot in those stones, which is weird.

You would expect to see some sort of breakdown of the Roman foot in these measurements, but they're not there at Baalbek.

They are there on the stones that were quarried from the ground.

There's a Roman unit of measurement that they would use in construction.

And we don't see it in those stones in the trilithon, but there's three stones that were quarried and left in the ground.

All of those stones show signs of using the Roman foot.

So that right off the bat shows to me that the ones that were installed were not built by the Romans, but the ones that were quarried were made by the Romans.

They were trying to quarry out stones to match it.

Right here.

Another thing is... That's crazy.

Roman architecture always uses the most impressive things right in the front.

You walk in the front of the thing, and that's where you're going to see the biggest stones, the most impressive, for obvious reasons.

These are in the back, completely on the opposite end of the entrance.

From what you told me, you kind of have to look for them if you don't know where they're at, right?