What Brien Foerster Gets WRONG about BAALBEK
The ancient ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon sport massive granite columns, which come from Aswan quarry in Egypt. According to Brien Foerster, it is impossible for humans to have made them. In this video, Dr. Miano examines the arguments presented by this alternative history advocate to see if they hold up. Did the Romans carve the pillars, or a mysterious civilization of the past?
This video is about the columns ONLY. If you want to discuss the large stones of the trilithon or the quarry, watch this first: • Baalbek: Mystery of th...
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REFERENCES
Foerster's original video:
• Baalbek In Lebanon: Me...
On Roman quarries and stoneworking:
amzn.to/3AYRmI7
oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databa...
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On Egyptian quarries:
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On Roman iron and steel:
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On the reuse of Roman granite during the Renaissance:
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Your funny 😂...it's amazing how hard people try to mask the truth. So who paid you? Are you part of the alphabet groups? Or part of " the intellectual" that are hell bent on proving MAN is responsible for things they didn't even have to tools to do. Everyone should look at this video as comedy
What kills me about all these "ancient aliens"/"ancient civilization" people step over a hundred pieces of data to pick up five or six random bits, then weave a narrative whole cloth that ignores 99% of the actual evidence, but fits comfortably into whatever vague nonsense they're selling.
those who doubt human ability to move large objects with simple techniques should look up the well documented 'Thunder Stone" moved to St. Petersburg in the 1700's - or how the City of Chicago, including massive buildings, was raised several feet in the 1800's using little more than the simple ancient technology of screw jacks.
Forester is almost 90% cases wrong.
You could write an entire encyclopedia library on the things that Brian Forrester gets wrong
Why Brien Foerster is WRONG about BAALBEK..Because he is Brien Foerster and he is wrong about everything.
When they Romans needed to build a mountain (ramp) to siege Masada (1,500 feet), it only took them between 4-7 months. About half a year to make a small mountain and attack it with battering rams. So of course they could build Ba'albek.
Love how you call it the "Alternative history business". Seems like that's exactly what it is and what these "alternative historians" fight to protect. It's all about the $$$'s.
Hey, at least this time it’s the Romans who couldn’t have done something. A fresh new idea I’d say.
You have the finished product an ancient culture left. You have the written instructions the ancient culture left on how they did it. You say, "Nah, that's not how the ancient culture did it." Welcome to Brien Foerster logic.
Dr Miano once again provides a highly informative refutation of Foerster's wild assertions. "World of Antiquity" is very educative in that you learn a great deal sound history in the process of watching the refutation of these conjectures that are relentlessly presented by Brien Foerster as proper research. Thank you Dr Miano.
I love how you're debunking these claims - in a calm and polite way (unlike some other channels out there) Out of interest, would you have any vids on the marks and holes in Egyptian granite, some are claiming were created using circular saws and tube drills?
The megaliths of Baalbek are definitely Pre-Inca.
Perfectly laser round. Perfectly laser smooth. Perfectly laser straight. Perfectly laser flat. I wish the Roman masons were here to hear that.
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The frustration of Forester's cult followers in this comment section is truly astonishing.
"Ahhh, another giant rock, ancient high technology spotted!"
Hobby researchers are good with asking clever questions. The problem is their attempt to give answers. They ignore the huge amount of knowledge that exist within ”mainstream academics”, while they base their own (exotic) theories on empty words like ”obviously” or ”unquestionably”.
Great video! Why are we taught that ancient people were ignorant brutes? Their lives were very simple compared to ours. They had a lot of time to master stone working!
That guy is absolutely pretending to give a talk to a room, but when he looks up he only ever looks at the camera