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Tracing Marco Polo's footsteps along the Silk Road
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 ...
National Geographic news3y
On the Ancient Silk Road, a Walk Shadowed by a Mystery
Marco Polo gets star treatment. But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta ... police 34 times while walking the hinterlands of authoritarian Uzbekistan. Along the steamy Amu Darya ...
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The Silk Road In photos: The Silk Road Diary
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.
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The Corridor of Culture
The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length ... travellers like Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. The Silk Road maintained its status for ...
Miami University2y
Silk Road ExplorAsian
The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...