Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·Csn3022

The cedar forest: mountain, forest and trees

Cedar forest covering a steep mountainside, with tall conifers in the foreground and dense trees on the slopes behind
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3022. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dense forest on a steep hillside, with tall conifers with spreading branches in the middle ground and darker trees filling the valley behind. The ridge above is covered with more trees against a pale sky, and the print is mounted on a card with a printed caption beneath.

English, as on the record

THE CEDAR FOREST "The mountaine of Olympus lies on the south of Lapethia, high, and taking up fiftie miles with his basis … Clothed with trees of all sorts and stored with fountains." George Sandys-1610 (Relations of a Journey)

English, as on the record

THE CEDAR FOREST "The mountaine of Olympus lies on the south of Lapethia, high, and taking up fiftie miles with his basis … Clothed with trees of all sorts and stored with fountains." George Sandys-1610 (Relations of a Journey)