A Brief Account of the Countries Adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea (1810 Seetzen), book

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, A Brief Account of the Countries Adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea (Bath: Meyler & Son; and London: Hatchard, 1810).

Abstract

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen 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.