National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita followed in Marco Polo’s footsteps and documented the amazing sights still ...

Le Devisement du Monde' (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as 'Marco Polo's Travels', is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history ...

Marco Polo started his voyage from his hometown of Venice and traveled from Europe to Asia, walking along the ancient Silk ...

After returning to Italy, Polo collaborated with the writer Rustichello da Pisa to chronicle his journey. The resulting book, ...

the Italian explorer who traveled to China in the 13th century and made the country known to many Westerners with his book The Travels of Marco Polo. This pioneer of cultural exchanges was a ...

This work would become known as The Travels of Marco Polo but sadly made no mention of an encounter with a mysterious Doctor in a flying blue caravan. Marco Polo is unfortunately the first of ...

Almost 750 years ago, a young Venetian merchant named Marco Polo wrote a remarkable book chronicling his travels in China. The Book of the Marvels of the World was full of strange foreign customs ...

The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago, in the year 1324. In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities ...

Shanghai Museum hosts a special exhibition on the legendary adventurer Marco Polo. [Photo/Shanghai Museum] The Shanghai Museum — located on the People's Square in Huangpu district — launched a special ...