The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

Curiosities Respecting Ruins

7 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Ruins (Ruin at Siwa in Egypt-Ruins)

Ruin at Siwa, in Egypt-Ruins of Palmyra-Ruins of Hercu laneum, and Pompeii-Ancient Ruins of Balbec-Ruins of Agrigentum, in Sicily-Ancient…

Ruins of Palmyra

of which the pyramids consist. The length is thirty-two feet, the height eighteen, the width fifteen. A gate at one end forms the principal…

Ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii

fore that it lasted about 1400 years. The thickness of the heaps of lava, by which the city was overwhelmed, has been much increased by…

Ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii: Balbec

THE ANCIENT RUINS OF BALBEC.-To give a just idea of these ruins, we must suppose ourselves descending from the interior of the town. After…

Agrigentum, in Sicily

At the south-east corner, where the ground, rising gradually, ends in a bold eminence, which is crowned with majestic columns, are the…

Agrigentum, in Sicily: Diodorus

Towards the west are the gigantic remains of the temple of Jupiter Olympus, minutely described by Diodorus Siculus. It may literally be…

Ancient Grandeur of Carthage

temple sacred to Esculapius, seated upon rocks, to which the ascent was by sixty steps. On the south side the city was surrounded by a…

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