A pilgrimage by many, and recommendation of a most esteemed Twitterata, took me to Jiangxi’s mighty Mount Lushan 庐山.
Fringed by Yangtze and Poyang lake, the cool retreat was sought by Daoist and Buddhists; Christian missionaries; and Communist delegates for millennia... 🧵 1/8
Depictions of Alexander the Great throughout the ages:
1. Greek, 4th century BC
2. Roman, 1st century BC
3. Armenian, 14th century AD
4. Iranian, 16th century AD
Roman glass cups from the Himlingøje burial site in Denmark, from 2nd and 3rd century, found in graves of rich or princely family https://t.co/pcv5dgbT3r
So, I mentioned as part of our Season 2 announcement that I wanted to use social media to highlight parts of our narrative that there simply isn't room for in the main show. Today, we'll start doing that by looking at one of my favorite medieval personages: Ibn Battuta.