Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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favored country will be other than a wilderness. DAMASCUS. ITS GREAT A^TIQUnY A SKETCH OF ITS HISTOEY ITS SINGULAB ANCIENT RUINS. This is the oldest city in the world still standing,and was an ancient city in the time of Christ. Forover four thousand years Damascus has been a spec-tator of the events of the world. She takes note oftime not by months or years, but by the kingdomsand empires she has seen rise, flourish, and pass away.From villages she saw Baalbek, Thebes, and Ephesusgrow into cities that amazed the world with theirsize and grandeur—then witnessed their decay anddesolation, and saw their ruins inhabited by owlsand bats. She saw the kingdom of Israe lise, estab-lish its capital at Jerusalem, become mighty, build the^^onderful Temple of Solomon, and she saw it anni-hilated. She witnessed the advent of Greece amon»the nations of the earth—witnessed her career oftwo thousand years; then saw her perish. In her oldage Damascus saw Kome built, the Roman Empire Ml m mw i R^
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