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The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens.

Turkish women chatting indoors.

Turkish female costumes.

Dinner at a Turkish residence.

Heracles, Agamemnon, Hector. Menelaus, Helen and Paris. Turcus, son of Troilus and mythical ancestor of the Turks and his cousin Francus, descendant of Hector and mythical founder of rhe Merovingian dynasty.

Ottoman cavalry during the Siege of Rhodes.

The Temple of Apollo in ancient Corinth.

Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. From The Illustrated London News, May 1876.

Mehme Rifa Pasha, general governor of Thessaloniki, deposed after the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From Le Monde Illustré (1876).

Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. Portrait of murdered consul of France Jules Moulin. From Le Journal Illustré, May 1876.

Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876.

Enrollment office of the Ottoman army in Thessaloniki at the time of Herzegovina uprising. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In the foreground, a Turk charges the pilgrims their entrance to the church.

Entrance to the Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus).

View of Istanbul from Pera. Valens aqueduct in the background. To the left of the aqueduct, the mosques of Suleiman I and Ahmed I, and Hagia Sophia.

The Sultan's tent, in the course of a military campaign.

The village of Eski Istambul, near Kirklareli (in Greek Saranta Ekklisies).

Dance of Bulgarian peasants.

Snapshot at Olt river in Rumania. Possibly a scene from the author's journey to Bucharest.

Ancient ruins at Ephesus.

Ruins at the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

A Roman building at Ephesus, probably a bathhouse.

Roman baths at Ephesus, probably the Roman baths of Varius in Selçuk, near ancient Ephesus.

Roman aqueduct on Mount Kastron, Samos island. The aqueduct was connected to the Eupalinian aqueduct or Tunnel of Eupalinos, near the port of Pythagoreion.