To the overalled inmates of Karakuduk, we are jinn. Marco Polo gets star treatment. But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming ...

The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.

reaching as far as the Mediterranean Sea and attracted famous travellers like Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium and a half, but it ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the 13th century, the Venetian merchant Marco Polo followed the Silk Road on his extensive travels through Asia. He brought back with ...

“study the flow of ideas among different cultures along the Silk Road.” Ever since Marco polo talked his way out of a Genoese prison with tales of the fantastical East, images of the Silk Road ...

The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.