During the 19th century several explorers visited Baalbek. Usually they made drawings of the site which later were published. Here below some pictures, every time showing (parts of) the Temple of the Sun which actually consists of two temples: the Temple of the Jupiter and the Temple of Bacchus, though not every time taken from the same viewpoint.
The pictures below have been taken from:
- Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte; Volney, 1799 (3rd edition).
- Voyage en Orient: Voyage de la Syrie. Voyage de l’Asie Mineure,; Léon de Laborde; 1837.
- Afbeeldingen van het heilige land bestaande uit veertig gezigten.; Bernatz; 1839.
- Excursion Daguerriennes, published by Lerebours in 1841.
- The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.; David Roberts; 1855-56.
- Baalbek; Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren 1898 bis 1905.; Theodor Wiegand; 1821-15.
Volney
De Laborde
Wiegand
David Roberts
David Roberts
Excursions Daguerriennes
Wiegand
Wiegand
Wiegand
David Roberts
Wiegand
De Laborde (Stone of the South)
Wiegand (Hajjar el-Hibla of Hadschar el híbla)
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