Rome and the Distant East: Trade Routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China

Rome and the Distant East: Trade Routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-236

  McLaughlin, Raoul ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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