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 ...

A glamorous figure in history, which places him in the 13th century as the first European to visit the Orient, Marco Polo has been portrayed in as many different guises as imagination permits ...

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 ...