Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient far from the tabula rasa

far from the tabula rasa advocated by Western avant-gardes

language and literature of Egypt from prehistory to the pharaonic period

which includes

in both the fields of literature and the arts

largely influenced by the Chinese model

Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient far from the tabula rasaIn 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