De Rome à la Chine. Sur les routes de la soie au temps des Césars. Extrême-Orient the pre-Romanesque sites built during

the pre-Romanesque sites built during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods represent an important part of medieval architecture

2007-08 and 2009 Field Seasons

“Guide belles Lettres” collection

he exhorts him to an urgent conversion to philosophy

Pinard: “The excavations of Byrsa (continued)”

De Rome à la Chine. Sur les routes de la soie au temps des Césars. Extrême-Orient the pre-Romanesque sites built duringBelles 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