Their temple of jupiter no longer exists but six of its pillars have defied the wind and weather and man for two thousand years. The p. L. O. Standard arabic known to antiquity as heliopolis. In the roman empire they beg a comparison for sheer size and magnificence. They are perfect of their kind and they stand for megalomania for sheer wanton extravagance. But obeying the ancient cultic side on the big cow plains at the foot of the snow capped mountains of lebanon care the indigenous syrians worshiped the great god bud. Later alexander the great name the place heliopolis and made it sacred to the sun god helios. And it was here too that the romans built their mighty temple to jupiter two thousand years ago but that temple too did not survive the passage of time. It wasnt until the Nineteenth Century that the ruins were rediscovered travelers in the orient sort out the remains of the temple it was no longer believers in the dating who came but the leaders in art and stead of offerings