instructive in regards to more than sic transit gloria mundi to read in In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal (David Constantine, rev. 2011) how both the Apollo's Temple and the Platonic Academy were difficult to locate, as the English traveler Jacob Spon reported of his journey in the 1670s.
the Christian sites in Jerusalem were also unnoticed, unmarked and uncertain when Empress Helena made her journey in 330.
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