The Silk Roads: Between vestiges and imagination.
Snoeck/Guimet Museum/Department of Var/HDEVAR.| N° d'inventaire | 31010 |
| Format | 25 x 31 |
| Détails | 176 p., numerous photographs and color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Gent, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461619228 |
To approach the Silk Roads is to take a journey through time and space, to immerse oneself in the ancient writings which revealed their existence and in those of the explorers who tried to find traces of them at the end of the 19th century. and at the beginning of the 20th century century. It is also having the joy of discovering, thanks to the research of archaeologists, philologists, historians and geographers, unknown worlds of unsuspected societies and vanished religions, in a region that was at the heart of the world.
It is finally remembering that despite obstacles, distances or sometimes warlike relations, these multilateral exchanges of material goods (which the imagination necessarily projects as sumptuous) and these transmissions of knowledge and thoughts with much more lasting consequences have always existed.
To approach the Silk Roads is to take a journey through time and space, to immerse oneself in the ancient writings which revealed their existence and in those of the explorers who tried to find traces of them at the end of the 19th century. and at the beginning of the 20th century century. It is also having the joy of discovering, thanks to the research of archaeologists, philologists, historians and geographers, unknown worlds of unsuspected societies and vanished religions, in a region that was at the heart of the world.
It is finally remembering that despite obstacles, distances or sometimes warlike relations, these multilateral exchanges of material goods (which the imagination necessarily projects as sumptuous) and these transmissions of knowledge and thoughts with much more lasting consequences have always existed.