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

Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade ... The role of Marco Polo's co-writer Rustichello in the book's production and his possible influence on its content also ...

Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Silk Road in 147 AD and 401 AD respectively, to translate Buddhist books ... Marco Polo came to Yuan's ...

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 ...