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.

The achievement of the man who, seeking Asia by a Western Ocean route ... South America, — Columbus believes he has at last located the name and kingdom of the Can. The Book of Marco Polo ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes ... Marco Polo Time ...

Following the ancient trade route taken by the Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo more than 700 years ago, presenters Stanley and Max recreated the ancient journey from China's western ...

Marco Polo set out from Venice with his father and ... became known as the 'most dangerous woman in America'. The Varna treasure is considered the world's oldest human processed gold, dating ...

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 ...

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 ...