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As Iran tries to wipe Israel off the map, a museum charts those who first put it on

www.timesofisrael.com·ToI Staff·about 1 month ago
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In 1483, Bernhard von Breydenbach, a dean from the German city of Mainz, embarked on a months-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land. During the journey, von Breydenbach and his group, which included Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich from Utrecht, visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, several sites in the Galilee, and concluded their pilgrimage at the Saint Catherine Monastery in the Sinai desert. The trip was recorded in a richly illustrated journal published a few years later, marking the first such mass-produced travelogue, and the first to include a largely accurate panoramic map of the Holy Land. Drawn by Reuwich, the illustrated graphic shows much of the area traversed by the group, spanning from Mecca to Damascus, with Jerusalem and the crimson-topped Dome of the Rock at its center.…

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