These accomplishments earned Temüjin the title of Genghis Khan - the “universal ruler.”While his name today is rightly ...

The door swings shut behind me and I’m alone – not, thankfully, with a villain from Midsomer Murders, but with a wall of text introducing me to the history of ice cream ... The story goes that Marco ...

League of Nations General Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, February 24th, 1933. After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the League of Nations had tasked British politician Lord Lytton to ...

Still, food history scholar Massimo Montanari asserts ... hundreds of years before Marco Polo came back from his legendary travels in 1295. Even if other forms of pasta were already present ...

Yates, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at McGill ... In 1271, the Italian merchant Marco Polo is believed to have visited China. What was his impression of this very different world?

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 ...

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Venetian parchment has been restored by a team from the University of Warwick. The document, which had been thought lost for more than 70 years, records the activities of merchants who followed in the ...

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