The Washington Post, October 20th, 1995
BACK WHEN the mysterious East was still mysterious, Western adventurers often risked health and life to capture the exotic sights of remote regions. Following in the footsteps of such intrepid traders as Marco Polo, they made their way into areas unseen by Europeans since the Crusades. Smithsonian visitors can retrace those steps at their leisure in an excellent antiquarian exhibition at the S. Dillon Ripley Center's International Gallery. Fascination with the Bible lands and what Westerners vaguely called "the Orient" was heightened by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and the continuing "...
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