A series of precious maps linked to the age of exploration, some extremely rare, each bearing its own story of travels during which have been drafted. Many drawn up by explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Aurel Stein,Kingdon Ward, Littledale among others, and some from East India Company and Dutch East India Company, both trading since 1700 with several continental and subcontinental asian countries, bordering with seas moreover sailed by pirate vessels. This cartography is mostly combined with original texts of the explorations towards Asia and Africa.An adventurous saga of some connections between eastern and western civilizations in the years of the colonial expansion, aimed to the dominance of markets, populations and related commodities.The exhibit is accompanied by ancient potteries rescued by vessels and junks drowned into the Indian ocean and the south China sea. A presentation which follows the visitor into a special world where understanding the great effort of people who first enjoyed the discovery of the earlier civilizations