Architecture and built environment - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

View of Carthage.

View of Venice.

Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. High priests of Israel.

Prophets of the Old Testament: Azariah, Elijah, Obadiah, Micah and Jonas. Kings of Israel: Zimri, Amri, Ahab, and Jezabel, Ahaziah, Joram. View of Jericho. Prophet Elijah ascends to heaven.

Rome.

View of Genoa. Wise Men of Greece: Theles, Solo, Chilon.

The Seven Wise Men of Greece: Thales, Solon, Chilon, Periander, Cleobulus, Bias, Pittacus. View of Marseille. Kings of the House of David, from which Jesus might be descended: Amon, Josiah, Jehoahz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, Zadekiah.

View of Marseille.

Kings of Babylon: Mordecai, Nebuchadnezzar. Xerxes. View of Constantinople. Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem.

View of Constantinople.

Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem.

View of Alexandria. Philosophers and scholars of antiquity: Demosthenes, Aristoteles, Epicurus, Callisthenes, Xenocrates.

View of Alexandria.

Istanbul.

Alboin King of the Lombards. Cardinal Julian and Francesco Sforza. Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.

Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.

Antonio Roselli, eminent judge and jurist (1381 -1466). Sultan Mehmed II depicted in the likeness of John VIII Palaiologos on the medal by Pisanello. Istanbul during the great storm of July 1490 which caused extended fires and human losses and was seen by several Christians as sign of God's wrath against Muslims. Stone in the shape of the letter D, etched with a cross, falls from the sky on Ensisheim, Alsace on 7 November 1492.

Istanbul during the great storm of July 1490 which caused extended fires and human losses and was seen by several Christians as sign of God's wrath against Muslims.