aoser

Updated: May 9, 2025

Seetzen's guide, Aoser, refused to go there, being afraid of the Arabs. The traveller was, therefore, obliged to go alone. "This town," he says, "is entirely in ruins and abandoned. Not a single building remains; but its ancient splendour is sufficiently proved by ruins. Traces of the old fortifications remain, and also many pillars and arches of marble, basalt, and granite.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century