Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient at least for the most

at least for the most part

this plan is restored from the annual excavation sketches and data from aerial surveys

in both the fields of literature and the arts

ne se comprend qu’à partir de la liberté du geste vocal inévitablement figée par la plume des copistes dans les manuscrits

largely influenced by the Chinese model

Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient at least for the mostIn Syria, a land of passage for millennia, each civilization has left its mark and thousands of sites have been recorded there. However, it was not until the end of the 17th century that Europeans began to take an interest in these remains. The description of Palmyra by Pastor Halifax in 1691, then that of the "antiquarians" Robert Wood and James Dawkins in 1751, as well as the travelogue of Richard Pococke in 1737, were at the origin of a real craze