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Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Subscribe for ads-free reading This year marks the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo and his adventures in East Asia. Polo’s encounters with merchants ...
In Cebu’s dynamic property landscape, only a handful of developments have managed to redefine high-rise living quite like Federal Land’s Marco Polo Residences. Known for combining world-class ...
Marco Polo was an Italian merchant and explorer who travelled through Asia along the ancient Silk Road in the 13th century, ending his journey in Dadu, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 ...
Max Kellady as Emperor Duzong, the emperor of China. Soffi Jikan as Milo Boy, a young boy who becomes Marco Polo’s friend. Mano Maniam as The Old Man / Hassan-i Sabbah, the leader of the Hashshashin.
This year marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo (1254–1324), the legendary Venetian traveler who introduced Asia to the West. Yet despite Marco Polo’s widespread recognition in China, ...
Today, 700 years after his death, Marco Polo remains remarkably well-known, even by non-scholars: an American swimming pool game, an upscale fashion company, numerous travel businesses, even the ...
The Origin of the Word "Hashshashin" is unclear. While some argue that the word comes from the Arabic hashishi meaning "hashish users," chroniclers such as Marco Polo claim that the followers of ...
Suzhou, dubbed "the Venice of the East" by Marco Polo in the 13th century, became a sister city of Venice in 1980. [Photo/Xinhua] Italians and Chinese are coming together to remember Marco Polo ...
Watch the journey of two ordinary men as they set out to follow Polo’s historic route. Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile ...
Marco Polo set out from Venice with his father and uncle for court of Kublai Khan (Credit: UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images) Filled with wonders, Marco Polo's tales are the first European account ...