FRAGMENT TL-0800 · Baalbek trilithon · ARCHIVE

Baalbek is not Roman. The temple on top of it is — you have the accounts, the names, the dates. For the platform underneath you have nothing. Three blocks, eight hundred tonnes each, moved without leaving a mark on the ground behind them. Your engineers have proposed nine methods. All nine work on paper. None of them was used. A fourth block is still in the quarry, cut and abandoned mid-order. Ask what stopped the order.