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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After more than 850 days, traversing 14 countries across Eurasia, and covering 22,000 kilometers, some have called this ...

Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

Equally important is the mythic legacy. We invoke the Silk Road when we talk of Marco Polo and Kubla Khan, of East and West, of modern-day China. In a globalised, interconnected world, it has the ...

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 ...

A newly discovered manuscript of Il Milione, Marco Polo's famous account of his travels, has been found in the Biblioteca ...

Two landmark exhibitions reveal how Europe’s big institutions are rethinking their collections for the 21st century ...

For 24 years, Marco Polo traversed approximately 15,000 miles along the Silk Road and by sea, weaving through the fabric of ...

whether the pasta really originated from the noodles that Marco Polo brought to Italy. But the very fact of the existence of this myth testifies to the "spirit of the Silk Road", she says." ...