Europeans Marco Polo and The Gobi Desert
1 https://www.britannica.com/place/Gobi "The region first became known to Europeans through the vivid 13th-century descriptions of Marco Polo , but it otherwise remained for them virtually unknown and untraveled." European interest in the region was rekindled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A number of geographic expeditions were launched by the Russians and British; and, though the main focus of these expeditions was the Takla Makan, most of them also went through the Gobi, where basic mapping and some study of the flora and fauna were conducted. ...During the same period(1990s), U.S. and European expeditions conducted paleontological research on exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil assemblages in the desert dating to Late Cretaceous times (i.e., about 100 million to 66 million years ago). Since 1995, joint Mongolian-American and Mongolian-European expeditions have also investigated the tectonic history and landscape evolution o...

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