Medieval audiences couldn’t get enough of Polo’s fascinating accounts of faraway lands, turning his book into a runaway success. Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the ...

Marco Polo wasn’t just an explorer; he was also a renowned storyteller. Now, you can own a rare piece of his literary legacy. One of the last remaining manuscripts of Marco Polo’s Travels is on sale ...

When Lorenzo Richelmy was a boy touring with his stage actor parents through Italy, he fell in love with the world of theater. But his parents hoped he’d choose another path. “They were really worried ...

"Marco Polo was the first person to chronicle the commercial and cultural challenges that existed during a period of very little international interaction. In many ways, modern corporations that want ...

Over 700 years after Marco Polo’s world famous overland journey from Venezia in Italy to the Far East (1272-1295), this reconstruction focuses mainly on Central Asia and China, and from a western ...

When William Jeakle, one of the producers who helped get Bill Nye his own TV show, took his family to London a couple years ago, his young children wanted to stay in the hotel and watch "The Simpsons" ...

As unofficial ambassadors for a city go, you can’t do much better than Marco Polo. The legendary 13th century Italian traveler was one of the first westerners to travel through China, and in his ...

Squashed onto a thin strip of land between Manila Bay and Laguna Lake, traffic in the capital of the Philippines is forced through a few central avenues as it crawls from north to south. Commuters, ...

Eight months ago, Italian actor Lorenzo Richelmy didn’t know how to ride a horse, sword fight, do martial arts or use a bow and arrow. Now, after playing the title role in Netflix’s new series “Marco ...

The ship that will relaunch Orient Lines, the Maxim Gorkiy, will be renamed the Marco Polo II, after the original Orient Line's original ship, the Marco Polo. However, the Marco Polo, which was sold ...