Conventional wisdom that the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus has been cast into doubt by centuries-old maps and documents suggesting that Marco Polo got there first. According to ...

Conventional wisdom that the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus has been cast into doubt by centuries-old maps and documents suggesting that Marco Polo got there first. According to ...

Goods moved between China and Europe along this route. Marco Polo came from a family of merchants. When he was a small child, his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo were already amassing some ...

For a guy who claimed to spend 17 years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left ... scholars now contend was America. History says little about Polo’s three daughters.