Baalbek Roman Ruins

This wonderful site in Baalbek was a temple dedicated to the Phoenician gods Astarte and Baal since the year 9000 BC, and it remained so until the year 150 BC, and then it was converted into a temple dedicated to the goddess Venus during Roman colonization, and at that time this majestic temple was built that is dotted with columns marble, a huge palace and stone carvings of great beauty, and then in the year 637 AD the temple was converted into an ecclesiastical area with the influence of Constantine the Great on the Roman Empire. These ruins are now visited by people who want to learn about the region's rich and long history.