MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

Archaeology and History of the Silk Road

Friday, 24 January 2014

Kucha ist eine alte Stadt an der Seidenstraße am Rande der Taklamakan-Wüste. In der Altstadt haben mich besonders die schönen Tore fasziniert.

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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