Caption:
Ruins at Palmyra, Syria. Temple of Bel, Temple of the Sun or the Temple of Baal. In 1810 it was a Bedouin mosque. Der Sonnentempel, le Temple du Soleil. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Louis-François Cassas from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.