Computer Simulation of the Jewish TempleJERUSALEM (AP) – Deep within the remains of an ancient Muslim palace, tourists gaze at a computer screen and find themselves transformed into pilgrims as they are led to the Jewish temple destroyed 2,000 years ago. The computer simulation is part of a new interactive museum that opened Wednesday just outside the Al Aqsa Mosque, which sits on land where Jews believe are the remains of their two temples, one built by King Solomon and the second by King Herod - are buried. The sacred complex venerated by Muslims and Jews is the most sensitive site of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A dispute over final control of the hill helped derail peace talks and triggered fighting that began seven months ago. Muslim clerics who administer the complex, known to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, say there is no archaeological evidence that Jews once stood temples in place of the Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques. The new Israeli exhibition "is not a museum of historical events, but a factory of lies," said Adnan Husseini, director of the Islamic Trust which administers the site. Israel, in turn, complains bitterly that Muslims have recklessly discarded important archaeological finds, including those tracing the complex's Jewish history, as part of the construction of underground prayer halls. The opening of the multimillion-dollar museum near the southwestern corner of the Al Aqsa complex, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, has come at a time of crisis in the tourism industry caused by unrest that has claimed more than 470 victims. Israel hopes the show will attract foreigners to return to visit. The computer simulation is housed in what was the basement of a palace from which Muslim caliphs ruled the area in the 7th century. In the high-tech computer simulation, developed with the University of California at Los Angeles, visitors are guided by computer images beneath a tall portal, known today as Robinson's Arch, and up a grand staircase to the majestic Second Temple, so as it was before the Romans destroyed it in 70 AD The computer program, like a flight simulator, takes the audience to the large plaza surrounding the Temple. The royal portico adorns one side of the courtyard with four rows of columns. The square sanctuary, decorated with a gold frieze, rises high above the covered heads of the virtual Jewish pilgrims on the other side.