Marco Polo, the famous European traveler and explorer from Venice, praised Hangzhou as “the finest and most splendid city in ...

"The vivid portrayals in The Travels of Marco Polo are an authentic 'journey of knowledge', in which Marco Polo depicts cities, thriving markets, different peoples, wealth, technology, and the ...

A visitor looks at an oil painting at the exhibition A Journey of Knowledge: The Travels of Marco Polo and Its Legacy Between East and West in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on May 8. QI XIAO/CHINA ...

If Marco Polo went to China, British Sinologist Frances ... I followed Polo's journeys across Asia, from Iraq to China and homeward via Sumatra, India and Sri Lanka, using his book as my guide.

Olshin, a historian of cartography whose book, The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps ... quandary is that Polo himself wrote nothing of personal maps or of lands beyond Asia, though he did once ...

The Venetian, Marco Polo, spent 24 years travelling across Asia on behalf of Kublai Khan. He was finally allowed to return to Venice only to find it at war with Genoa. Marco was taken prisoner and ...

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago ... Tesla is rolling out in India, Asia’s third largest economy where EV sales grew 2000% over five years.

12. In June, Sony had announced that it was planning to hold a new product launch event on July 7, the anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Chinese authorities claimed that the ...