He began dictating his story to Rustichello, who produced the manuscript that would become The Travels of Marco Polo. 5. Marco Polo introduced the concept of paper currency to Europe. The Mongol ...

Marco Polo was, of course, the world’s most famous traveler. He was the author of the first real travel book – written in about 1300 - in which he describes his journey from Venice across Asia ...

As the second season of the Netflix original series “Marco Polo” opens, the Mongol Empire is dealing with the aftermath of its victory over the Chinese Song Dynasty at Xiangyang in the first ...