On his radio show on Friday, Glenn Beck flipped out over reports that a reproduction of an arch from a 2,000-year-old Temple of Baal in Syria would be erected in Times Square to mark World Heritage Week, saying that such an act was nothing more than “slapping God in the face”:

It turns out that Beck may have been freaking out for no reason as all.

Initial reports from back in December stated that the Institute for Digital Archaeology, as part of a project to use 3D cameras to capture images of threatened objects from around the world, planned to put replicas of an arch from the Temple of Baal that were recreated using such technology on display in London and New York.

Since then, plans appear to have changed, as the IDA is not putting anything on display in New York and the reproduction that is going up in London is of a different arch from the site in Syria:

The centerpiece of our Trafalgar Square installation will be a scale reproduction of the 2,000 year old Triumphal Arch from the Palmyra site in Syria which was destroyed last year. Produced using state-of-the-art 3D technology, the arch will be installed in Trafalgar Square on Monday April, 18th and open to the public on Tuesday April 19th.

As the Telegraph reported last week, this Arch of Triumph has been under construction for months and will not be appearing in New York any time soon: