Cathedral of the Holy Cross is the remains of a Crusader church in Tyre, Lebanon. It was built in 1129 under the rule of William I of Tyre and dedicated to the Holy Cross on the site of a Byzantine ch
The ruins of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross
19th century print
Photograph in 1870
The site in 2015
Johann Nepomuk Sepp
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Johann Nepomuk Sepp was a German historian and politician, and a native of Bavaria.
Johann Nepomuk Sepp
Sepp's expedition to excavate the bones of Holy Roman Emperor Frererick Barbarossa in the ruins of the Cathedral of Tyre, 1874
Early-Christian Bas-reliefs of the Apostles in Qana, Lebanon, drawn by Sepp in 1879