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en-wikipedia-org-8431		Sino-Roman relations - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	15394	1481	76	661–680 AD) to besiege the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and forced the Byzantines to pay them tribute.[28] The same books also described Constantinople in some detail as having strong granite walls and a water clock mounted with a golden statue of man.[28][39][40] Henry Yule noted that the name of the Byzantine negotiator "Yenyo" (the patrician John Pitzigaudes) was mentioned in Chinese sources, an envoy who was unnamed in Edward Gibbon's account of the man sent to Damascus to hold a parley with the Umayyads, followed a few years later by the increase of tributary demands on the Byzantines.[41] The New Book of Tang and Wenxian Tongkao described the land of Nubia (either the Kingdom of Kush or Aksum) as a desert south-west of the Byzantine Empire that was infested with malaria, where the natives had black skin and consumed Persian dates.[28] In discussing the three main religions of Nubia (the Sudan), the Wenxian Tongkao mentions the Daqin religion there and the day of rest occurring every seven days for those following the faith of the Da shi (the Muslim Arabs).[28] It also repeats the claim in the New Book of Tang about the Eastern Roman surgical practice of trepanning to remove parasites from the brain.[28] The descriptions of Nubia and Horn of Africa in the Wenxian Tongkao were ultimately derived from the Jingxingji of Du Huan (fl.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8431.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8431.txt