Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back - and spent two incredible years of their ...

BEIJING - Seven hundred years after his death, legendary Italian traveler Marco Polo remains an inspiration for those passionate about the cultures of China and Italy, and a symbol of the ties ...

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago ... He wrote it down, creating the first thorough account of China and the Silk Road for Europeans, who had never heard ...

In the 13th century, the Venetian merchant Marco Polo followed the Silk Road on his ... noodles to Italy after encountering the food in China. In fact, Italians were probably already quite ...

for violating China's advertising laws over its plan to hold a new product launch event on the anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The armed clash between Japanese and Chinese troops at ...