Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day.
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.
Le district polaire austral est formé d'un continent, l'Antarctide, plus vaste que l'Europe et centré, approximativement, sur le pôle Sud, que ceinture un anneau océanique continu, l'océan glacial Antarctique.
At the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to 'discover' Scotland, and just as Scott had been enthralled by this fiercely distinctive land, so Prebble's imagination was similarly enchanted and challenged.
