Baalbek
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Baalbek is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In 1998, the city had a population of 82
Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon
Umayyad Mosque of Baalbek 01
Hotel Palmyra, Baalbek Lebanon, March 2001
Lebanon, Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter
Baal
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Baal, or Ba'al, was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods.
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…were successors of Alexander the Great. In Greek religion, Helios was both the sun in the sky and its personification as a god. The local Semitic god Baʿal Haddu was more often equated with Zeus or Jupiter or simply called the "Great God of Heliopolis", but the name may refer to the Egyptians' association…
Baal with Thunderbolt stele from Ugarit (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Bronze figurine of Baal, 14th–12th century BC, found at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) near the Phoenician coast (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Solid cast bronze of a votive figurine representing Baal discovered at Tel Megiddo, dating to the mid-2nd millennium BC (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, Illinois)