The Route of the Silk

Stupa in memory of the abbot of the monastery of Dunhuang (photo: © H.Uhlig) The denomination Route of the Silk was adopted, in the middle of the XIXth century, by the Austrian geologist baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Chinese Zhang Qian can be considered to be the first traveler of the Route, when they sent him in diplomatic mission to the western regions...
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In the previous chapter we comment on the exhibition Warriors of Xian, which continues until January 9 in the Center of Art the Fourth Deposit of the Foundation Channel of Elizabeth II, in the Square of Castile of Madrid. We turn today to the first part of the documentary of the Japanese NHK The Route of...
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On Thursday the exhibition was inaugurated in Madrid and this morning (I write this the night from Friday until Saturday) at about one o'clock at midday I have presented in the Center of 4th Art Deposit of the Foundation to myself Channel of Elizabeth II, in the Square of Castile. I have paid paid 3 euros...
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We keep on commenting on the first part of the documentary The Route of the Silk, available in a box with ten DVD. In the episode I conscript, In search of The Kingdom of Loulan, the envoys of the NHK and the Chinese team who accompanies them form the first expedition to the shanty town of Loulan from the revolution. Loulan...
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We keep on revising ten DVD that compose the first part of the documentary series that in 1980 there realized the Japanese NHK, which includes the Chinese stretch of the Route of the Silk, of Xian al Tian Shan. In the third episode The art gallery in the desert offers itself a reportage on the so called ones...
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There is understood by Route of the Silk the itinerary that in the antiquity joined the Roman and Chinese empires, the way for which the East silks went so far as to adorn the bodies of the elegant Roman checkers. Conditionally the ends of the Route are located in Rome and in the Chinese city of...
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