National Geographic, Volume 199National Geographic Society., 2001 - Geography |
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Much that Marco recorded hasn't changed in seven centuries . In southern China I found — as he did — people with tattooed skin and teeth sheathed in gold . “ They eat all coarse things , ” Marco wrote of the Chinese , having seen ...
Much that Marco recorded hasn't changed in seven centuries . In southern China I found — as he did — people with tattooed skin and teeth sheathed in gold . “ They eat all coarse things , ” Marco wrote of the Chinese , having seen ...
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Soon they reached the small city of Saveh , where Marco must have practiced his Persian . He says he had conversations about the three Magi , the wise men , Balthazar , Gaspar , and Melchior , who went to Bethlehem to worship the infant ...
Soon they reached the small city of Saveh , where Marco must have practiced his Persian . He says he had conversations about the three Magi , the wise men , Balthazar , Gaspar , and Melchior , who went to Bethlehem to worship the infant ...
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Marco admired monks and wrote that the Buddha , had he been Christian , would have been a saint . But he ignored Shazhou's grottoes . Maybe he didn't see them . Or maybe , beholding such a panoply of strange religious art , he was ...
Marco admired monks and wrote that the Buddha , had he been Christian , would have been a saint . But he ignored Shazhou's grottoes . Maybe he didn't see them . Or maybe , beholding such a panoply of strange religious art , he was ...
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