De Rome à la Chine. Sur les routes de la soie au temps des Césars. Extrême-Orient “Guide belles Lettres” collection

“Guide belles Lettres” collection

Conscious of their sacredness

Pinard: “The excavations of Byrsa (continued)”

he exhorts him to an urgent conversion to philosophy

2007-08 and 2009 Field Seasons

De Rome à la Chine. Sur les routes de la soie au temps des Césars. Extrême-Orient “Guide belles Lettres” collectionBelles Lettres' "Ralia" collection. After a perilous and exhausting journey, Roman citizens arrived in China in 166 AD and were received by the Han emperor in his capital, Chang'an, near present day Xi'an. It was the end of an extraordinary journey during which, from Alexandria in India, across the Bay of Bengal to the Malay Peninsula and the coasts of Annam, they had to face all dangers to reach the fabulous riches of China. Jean Nol Robert not only