Some nice photos of decoration on the monuments at Baalbek in Lebanon here.
I so want to go to Baalbek. Unfortunately it’s located in the Bekaa valley, which is where the Hezbollah are currently hunkered down and doing their gun-running from Iran. I can imagine three doors at the site entrance: “Men”, “Women”, “Hostages.”
I can’t talk about Baalbek without reproducing the 19th century Roberts‘ picture:
