MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

Archaeology and History of the Silk Road

Thursday, 2 December 2010

If you want to visit Musee Guimet in Paris virtual and full screen, click HERE

Hotel La Defense6 December 2010 at 13:27
Nice review of the Guimet Musée. Thanks for sharing. Compliments from Hotel La Defense
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Hans van Roon: Rotterdam, Netherlands; My fascination for these subjects started in the '80 's by reading the book of Peter Hopkirk about the travels and explorations of Aurel Stein in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the Silk Road through Central Asia, the Taklamakan Desert, Bokhara and Samarkand I arrived in the 13th century and followed the building of a world empire by Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons. His most famous grand son was Khubilai Khan and with him I ended in the Yuan Dynasty in the time when Marco Polo visited China and since than I never stopped reading again

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