Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

What could be the outline for a blockbuster movie is nothing less than the biography of Marco Polo. Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade route connecting Europe to ...

to Cathay: the silk road crossed by Marco Polo. Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques (1325-1387). BN, Paris, France (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images) Today, Coinbase unveiled a bold new ...