Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (1822 Burckhardt), book

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (London: John Murray, 1822). Illustrated by Henry Salt.

Abstract

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt traveled to the Land of Israel in 1812. On 22 August 1812, he became the first modern European to lay eyes on the ancient Nabataean city of Petra.

Burckhardt died in 1817 in Cairo, before returning to Europe, but he had from time to time carefully transmitted to England his journals and notes, and a copious series of letters, so very few details of his journeys have been lost. The book was published posthumously in 1822 by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. It raised interest for the beginning of modern Biblical Archaeology.