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 ...

Greg Jenner is joined in 13th-Century Venice by Professor Sharon Kinoshita and comedian Ria Lina to learn all about medieval traveller Marco Polo and his adventures in China. Born into a family of ...

THE history of the growth of Christian civilization into a practically universal predominance does not begin with the discovery of America, or of the Cape Route, or of the way round the globe. It does ...

MARCO POLO, the Italian merchant and first explorer to visit parts of Asia, established what would later be called the Silk Road, with one myth surrounding the ancient trade route debunked by a ...

Marco Polo’s Chinese exploration lasted for more than two decades. Perhaps, this is why the producers behind the new Netflix series “Marco Polo” opted to use such glacial pacing when adapting the ...

Stanley Johnson and his son Max Johnson wear costumes during a role-playing game at a film production base in China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) It’s a story about ...

Created by John Fusco, Netflix’s newest entry in its reinvention of television aims to be a grand historical epic, but is too caught up in borrowing from other works to find its own voice. The math is ...

Greg Jenner is joined in 13th-Century Venice by Professor Sharon Kinoshita and comedian Ria Lina to learn all about medieval traveller Marco Polo and his adventures in China. Show more Greg Jenner is ...