Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Virtual Trip to the Temple

Have you ever looked at the images on Google Maps or other similar services? I find it so cool that not only can you see a map of a location, but you can overlay it with actual sattelite photos as well. For some locations there are even street level photographs so that you can take a virtual walk down the street.

As far as we know, there is no sattelite imagery available from before 70 AD when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. I guess they lost the tapes. As a result, Google Maps cannot take you to the Temple as it existed in Jesus' time. If they could though, it might look something like this model created by Dr. Lisa M. Synder:



(HT: Justin Taylor)

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