The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . regard to them that the traveler of to-day is left as muchin the dark concerning their origin as though he had justdiscovered them himself on the great Desert of Arabia. Whether the temples, once so grand and beautiful,which stood within this enclosure were built by Solomonfor his Egyptian wife, or whether they were erected bythe Persians, the Greeks, or the Romans, during theirsuccessive occupancy of this country, no one can now sayof a certainty. Jewish, Doric, Tuscan, and Corinthian architecture i
The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . regard to them that the traveler of to-day is left as muchin the dark concerning their origin as though he had justdiscovered them himself on the great Desert of Arabia. Whether the temples, once so grand and beautiful,which stood within this enclosure were built by Solomonfor his Egyptian wife, or whether they were erected bythe Persians, the Greeks, or the Romans, during theirsuccessive occupancy of this country, no one can now sayof a certainty. Jewish, Doric, Tuscan, and Corinthian architecture isfound amid the ruins, so that no clue can be had of theirorigin from this department of science ; and the immensestones which are found in one portion of the ruins, andthe mystery by which such stones were quarried andraised to their position, makes the problem of the originof these ruins still more difficult to solve. The most probable of the theories, we think, is thatdifferent portions of these structures were built at differ-ent periods of the worlds history, and under the rule of 306. Baalbec. 307 different dynasties—each ruler trying to outdo the otherin the additions and alterations made. Such is the well-known, history of the great temple, or successive temples,of Karnak, on the Nile, and these may have been erectedin a similar manner. The first view of the ruins, though grand and imposing,is anything but satisfactory ; and it is only after we havewalked around and viewed them from every side, andthen made a careful survey and analysis of the structureswithin, viewing one in relation to the other, searching outparallels and dividing lines, marking the foundation-stones and the relation of one line with another, observ-ing the semi-circular temples around the walls and therelation they probably bore to the great temple, that wearrive at any correct idea with regard to them. All this we do, first on our arrival in the afternoon andevening, and then again, still more ca
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