Marco Polo-II Notes: Monumentalism, Ruins Of The Roman Empire, And A Childhood Memory – Essay

When I was a boy of nine or ten maybe,  growing up in post-British Malaya, reading the Sejarah Dunia an old copy of World History in the Malay Language, a copy I found in the attic of my aunt’s wooden house, a copy that became my bedtime story book, I was fascinated by the story of the founding of Rome, of Romulus and Remus...