Long before anyone called this narrow Mediterranean land LEBANON, its snow-capped mountains, deep valleys, cedar forests, and coastline made it one of Earth’s extraordinary meeting places.
Before Zecharia Sitchin translated ancient Akkadian records of the settlement of the Eastern Mediterranean coast, the Denosbans had retreated from the Eastern Mediterranean and settled in the Mountains of Turkey. The Denosovans continued to build their ceremonial centers and small settlements in Turkey, beyond the Goldmining Expedition from the Planet Nibiru’s awareness. The Nibirans on Earth had our ancestors call them Anunnaki and settled in Iraq and Lebanon around 442,000 BCE. Nibiran King Anu landed on the landing platform his sons had built at the site in modern Lebanon we now call Baalbek.
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Again and again, from the Anunnaki to the present day, Lebanon’s rulers, indoctrinated with the Anunnaki ideology of domination by ruler, class, and caste, proclaimed their right to command. Repeatedly, the common people in Lebanon’s villages survived through families, villages, trade, mutual assistance, accommodation, resistance, and rebuilding. Through this history, these two ideologies of governance contended and failed to balance giving and taking of enormous wealth passing through their territory.
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FROM BAALBEK TO BEIRUT — WHO CONTROLS POWER?

Our journey began with an enormous stone platform in the Cedar Mountains.

In Sitchin’s reconstruction, Baalbek was built so beings descending from the heavens could land upon Earth.

The Deluge came. Baalbek survived.

Gilgamesh went there seeking immortality.

Phoenicians sailed from the nearby coast.

Assyrians demanded tribute.

Alexander conquered Tyre.

Romans raised temples.

Christians, Muslims, and Druze established communities.

Crusaders came.

Ottomans ruled.

France drew borders.

Lebanese created an independent republic.

Israelis, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Americans and Lebanese factions subsequently fought over what Lebanon would become.