Horsemen riding into the gates of a Middle Eastern city. This illustration appears in the twelfth chapter of First Maccabees, but it is not clear what city it intends to illustrate.

City Gates and Horsemen

Horsemen riding into the gates of a Middle Eastern city. This illustration appears in the twelfth chapter…

A building top view of St. Louis, Missouri.

Cityscape

A building top view of St. Louis, Missouri.

Artist's conception of what first-century Jerusalem may have looked like from the surrounding countryside.

View of Jerusalem from the Countryside

Artist's conception of what first-century Jerusalem may have looked like from the surrounding countryside.

View of first-century Jerusalem. Detail from a larger engraving of the city.

City of Jerusalem

View of first-century Jerusalem. Detail from a larger engraving of the city.

A cityscape of Knoxville, Tennessee during 1863.

Knoxville

A cityscape of Knoxville, Tennessee during 1863.