“Whoever came up with the idea for building the complex must have had quite a set of stones.”
With these “immigrants” from the Mediterranean, I wonder if they weren’t just bringing their architecture with them? Stone circles and dolmens similar to Stonehenge are pretty common around the area the Phoenicians were living in at that time.
The corbelled dome that appeared in Mycenaean Greece doesn’t seem to have any precursors in the e Mediterranean; the earlier structures which appear to be precursors are in the far west of Europe.
The diffusionist theories have been pretty much trashed these days. They may come back of course!