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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 ...

PAESTUM, Italy, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — Inspired by Marco Polo, who traveled to China along the ancient Silk Road more than 700 years ago, Italian traveler Vienna Cammarota set off from the legendary ...

"The vivid portrayals in The Travels of Marco Polo are an authentic 'journey of knowledge', in which Marco Polo depicts ...

Over two years ago, a woman in her 70s, a follower of Marco Polo, retraced her footsteps along the Silk Road. After more than 850 days, traversing 14 countries across Eurasia, and covering 22,000 ...

After he left home at 17, Marco Polo didn’t return to Venice for 24 years. Over the course of two decades, he traveled roughly 15,000 miles on land along the Silk Road and by sea, traversing ...

More than 700 years ago, Marco Polo, driven by a quest for true knowledge, traveled the vast Silk Road, bridging distant Eastern lands with Europe. This journey forever linked China and Italy ...

The name of Khotan resonated with Western explorers in the 19th century because famous Venetian explorer Marco ... writings, Polo noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the ...

(Photo by Fu Xiao/Xinhua) Inspired by Marco Polo, who traveled to China along the ancient Silk Road more than 700 years ago, Italian traveler Vienna Cammarota set off from the legendary explorer's ...