MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

Archaeology and History of the Silk Road

Friday, 23 March 2012

In the Gallery of J.J. Lally & Co in New York is from March 16 till April 14, 2012 the exhibition " Silver and Gold in China".

No time to visit it, download the exhibition catalogue by clicking HERE.

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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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