Many Iowans only know the name Marco Polo from a kids’ swimming pool game, but a guest lecturer who’ll be in central Iowa tomorrow has walked in the famed traveler’s footsteps — across 12 countries.

After Marco Polo season 2 ended with many loose ends ... eager to see the continuation of Marco's journey and the fate of the Mongol Empire. The season 2 finale saw numerous plotlines converging ...

Less famous is Rustichello da Pisa, the florid romance writer who served as ghostwriter for Polo's legendary work, The Travels of Marco Polo. The two men struck up their partnership in a Genoese ...

To illustrate the route taken by Marco Polo’s caravan and to mark the passage of time, a map was shown on screen accompanied by a voice-over by Mark Eden as Polo, describing the journey.

Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back - and spent two incredible years of their ...

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago, in the year 1324. In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities ...

The 15th-century Book of Lismore features the only surviving Irish translation of Marco Polo's travels, among other historical texts Nora McGreevy Maps attributed to the 13th-century traveler ...