Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient Patient research carried out over

Patient research carried out over several years has shed light on the history of the Spiritan collection

in both the fields of literature and the arts

we feel a fraternity with the fears

largely influenced by the Chinese model

Aventurier, voyageurs et savants. A la découverte archéologique de la Syrie. XVIIe-XXIe siècle. Extrême-Orient Patient research carried out overIn 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