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Woodchopping at Argeş River in Pireşti, Romania.
Cemetery near Bucharest.
Ancient temples at Agrigento, Sicily.
The base of a gigantic column near Syracuse.
Ancient bath in Palagonia, near Catania, Sicily. According to Roman myth, the three small lakes of the area were the birthplace of the Sicilian deities Palici.
A modern structure erected on the site of the ancient cistern in Val di Noto, southeastern Sicily.
Ruins of an aqueduct at Ephesus, most probably the Byzantine aqueduct at Selçuk, near ancient Ephesus.
The Roman stadium of Ephesus.
View of the wall of the ancient theatre of Ephesus.
The ruins of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
A monumental building on the coasts of Syria, possibly a Roman funerary monument between Tartus and Amrit, to the south of Tartus.
A monumental building between Tartus in Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon.
Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.
The ruins
of the temple of Hera on Samos island.
Roman aqueduct on Mount Kastron, Samos island. The aqueduct was connected to the Eupalinian aqueduct or Tunnel of Eupalinos, near the port of Pythagoreion.
A sarcophagus from the Tombs of the Kings complex outside Jerusalem.
View of Bethlehem.
Frontispiece. A scene from the voyage of Jacob Spon and George Wheler.
The Library of the Grand Duke of Tuscany in Florence.
The Sultan rides to the mosque for the customary Friday prayer, escorted by his suite.
Jacob Spon and George Wheler at Izmir. Panoramic view of the city.
The ruins of ancient Ephesus. Jacob Spon and George Wheler reading an ancient inscription.
Open-air praying site; such sites existed on all big commercial routes in the Ottoman Empire.
Muslim children in their circumcision costume. Animals destined to be sacrificed on the day of Kurban Bayram.
Rites of passage in the Muslim cemetery of Eyüp, Istanbul.
Parade of horses in the Sultans's honour, in the Second Court of Topkapi Palace, on the eve of the Bayram.
A caravan departs from Istanbul to the Holy Mosque of Mecca during the Ramadan, with sacred camels and gifts from the Sultan.
Camel carrying gifts from the Sultan to the Holy Mosque of Mecca during the Ramadan. Auxiliary camel forming part of the Caravan to Mecca.
Mules of the Imperial Caravan carrying gifts to Mecca from the Sultan, during the Ramadan.
View of Medina in Saudi Arabia, with Al-Nabawi Mosque.