Voyage dans l'Empire mongol 1253-1255. Antique his encounters

his encounters

which presents them together for the first time since they left their island

and dating mainly from the Hellenistic period – and a number of complementary works: bronzes from the King's Cabinet in the Cabinet of Coins

Montélimart

was included in the construction of TT 290 in the Ramesside period

Voyage dans l'Empire mongol 1253-1255. Antique his encountersTranslated, annotated, and commented by Claire and Ren Kappler. 16,000 kilometers in two years, partly on foot, but mostly on horseback: from Constantinople to Qaraqorum, capital of the Steppe Empire. Several years before Marco Polo, the account of Father William of Rubruck, envoy of Saint Louis to the Great Khan, is one of the first texts to reveal to the West the wonders of the Mongol order and its empire. An exceptional medieval historical document