Practically at the same time that Marco Polo arrived in China, a Chinese monk of Mongolian origin, Rabban Bar Sauma , he undertook a journey that would end up taking him through Byzantium and medieval Europe and meet emperors, popes and kings. From Mongol-dominated Beijing to Capetian France, Bar Sa
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Egyptology , a scientific study of Egyptian civilization, was born in the 19th century, thanks to Bonapartes campaign in Egypt and the decoding of hieroglyphics by Champollion . Despite the general enthusiasm for the ancient East, knowledge of this culture is restricted to a small committee of schol