The free app—available for computer, mobile devices and virtual reality headsets—offers interactive, 360-degree views of 38 locations in the city, reports Robert McKelvey for Al Jazeera. Users can listen to expert audio commentary in Arabic, English, French or German and call up additional images and text for more information about specific spots. They can also toggle between seeing the buildings as they appear today and as they looked almost 2,000 years ago.A couple of recent PaleoJudaica posts on the site of Baalbek are here and here.
Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical world.