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Baalbek Reborn: Temples
A new app offers an opportunity to experience an ancient site in its Roman heyday.
On the edge of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, surrounded by mountain ranges, sits the city of Baalbek. Known as ‘Heliopolis’ (City of the Sun) in antiquity, the city is home to an impressive Roman temple complex, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
Evidence of human activity at Baalbek dates back 10,000 years, but the site’s development in the ancient world reached its peak in the early 3rd century AD. Baalbek Reborn: Temples, a new app created by the Ministry of Culture – Directorate General of Antiquities, Lebanon; the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and Flyover Zone, offers a virtual tour around the religious centre of the city, with digital reconstruction
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