English: Ancient Jerusalem and Modern Jerusalem. ANCIENT JERUSALEM / MODERN JERUSALEM Lyman Coleman, in Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography, Philadelphia, 1854 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This is the frontispiece of a popular nineteenth-century biblical geography book designed to call attention to "a most important but neglected branch of education." "Modern Jerusalem" is actually the old walled city as it existed in the mid-nineteenth century. Many important holy sites are identified, including the ancient Temple, the Church of the Holy Sepulchure, the Mosque of Omar and the "Wailing Wall."