Lebanon's World Heritage Sites Endangered Amid Ongoing War

It was a colossal temple dedicated to the cult of Zeus, located in Heliopolis of Roman Phoenicia (Baalbeck of modern Lebanon). The columns were 30 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters, the biggest in the classical world. The Baalbek temple complex. UNESCO World Heritage site. Heliopolis, Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, September 2008. Image © Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the CC BY 4.0 international licenseFollowing over two years of systematic dest