The 1000-ton block that's still LYING IN THE QUARRY at Baalbek

Everyone obsesses over the Trilithon at Baalbek — three blocks in the temple podium, each ~800 tons, 19m long, stacked up off the ground in a wall. fair enough, that alone is insane. but the one that gets me is the Hajar al-Hibla, the 'Stone of the Pregnant Woman,' still sitting in the quarry about……