| Acre
is a seacoast city in on the northwest coast of Israel. Its population
is largely Arab and its most impressive building is the mosque at the center
of this photo. (For the interior of the mosque, see the next slide.) Beneath
the Muslim buildings lie the ruins of a fortress and other buildings constructed
by Christian Crusaders who at one time (1104 - 1291) dominated the region.
Anyone traveling
through this country can trace a long history of conflict and war as one
civilization was replaced by another, and the conquerors simply built entirely
new cities on top of those they had destroyed. In some places there are as many
as twenty such layers of human civilization. |