Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago ... creating the first thorough account of China and the Silk Road for Europeans, who had never heard or even imagined ...

To the overalled inmates of Karakuduk, we are jinn. Marco Polo gets star treatment. But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming ...

Italy's famous adventurer Marco Polo came to Yuan's capital Dadu (now Beijing) along the Silk Road in 1275. In his journal notes, he gave a detailed description about the local custom and culture ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the 13th century, the Venetian merchant Marco Polo followed the Silk Road on his extensive travels through Asia. He brought back with ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

The Silk Road, like the Milky Way ... We think of it as a land route, like Marco Polo’s to the court of Kublai Khan; it turns out that part of the road was maritime and on rivers.

reaching as far as the Mediterranean Sea and attracted famous travellers like Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium and a half, but it ...