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

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

Deep in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia lies the abandoned city of Khara-Khoto, which was founded nearly 1,000-years-ago but was ...

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 ...

Establishing himself as a confidant of Kublai Khan (1214-1294), Polo traversed the entirety of China, crafting the greatest ...

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 ...

No edition of The Travels of Marco Polo is deemed authoritative, and doubts linger around the truthfulness of his narratives. But his recorded experiences did inspire broad interest in the Far ...

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

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 ...

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 ...