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 the Trilithon Stones  

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REFERENCES
Foerster's original video:
   • Baalbek In Lebanon: Megaliths Of The ...  

On Roman quarries and stoneworking:
https://amzn.to/3AYRmI7
http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databa...
http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/docs/S...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3290845?...
https://brewminate.com/ancient-roman-...
http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/content/...
https://books.google.com/books?id=na0...
http://www.quarryscapes.no/guide_cont...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10...
https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10...
https://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjon...
https://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjon...
https://journal.eahn.org/article/id/7...

On Egyptian quarries:
https://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjon...
https://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjon...
https://escholarship.org/content/qt9b...
https://www.academia.edu/5407065/Mark...

On ancient stoneworking in general:
http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.academia.edu/7326869/Ston...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10...
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/v...
https://www.academia.edu/19626045/J.P...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...

On stone hardness:
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/...

On Roman transport:
https://sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.15...
https://www.academia.edu/7011436/Land...
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
https://www.academia.edu/3080968/Marb...

On Roman engineering:
https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Roman-Te...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520227824/...
https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Building...
https://journal.eahn.org/articles/10....
https://www.academia.edu/3088656/Maso...

On Roman iron and steel:
https://www.academia.edu/32184329/Mat...

On the reuse of Roman granite during the Renaissance:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

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