Ruins of the Temple of Baal at Palmyra, Syria

Ruins at Palmyra, Syria. Temple of Bel, Temple of the Sun or the Temple of Baal. In 1810 it was a Bedouin mosque. Der Sonnentempel, le Temple du Soleil. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Louis-FranE§ois Cassas from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

1810 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Friedrich Johann Bertuch Natural History Palmyra Picture Book For Children

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