Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Celte The smooth

The smooth

I am always struck with admiration by the enthusiasm

From the East to the West

three monumental gates provide access to the domains of Hathor

The political and social stability that characterized him allowed for a flourishing of Egyptian civilization in the 13th century BC

Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Celte The smoothIn 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