In 1492, Christopher Columbus, with a copyof Marco Polo’s travelsin hand, sailed westward from Europe, hoping to reestablish trading contact withtheMongol court. 公元1492年,航海家哥伦布带着一份马可·波罗游记的副本,从欧洲向西航行,希望重新跟蒙古朝廷建立贸易连系。
Marco PoloAfghanistanWakhan CorridorPamir MountainsXinjiangChinaIn a previous paper (Philica, Article 1097), we started an investigation concerning the travels of Marco Polo, using Google Earth and Wikimapia. In that articleAmelia Carolina Sparavigna...
WikimapiaMarco PoloChinaUsing Google Earth and Wikimapia, we can try to reconstruct the journey from Beijing to Xanadu described by Marco Polo in the Milione. A possible itinerary is hSparavigna, Amelia CarolinaSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
but it was not until his association with Ibn Jazayy that the stories were committed to formal writing. Battuta took notes during the journey but admitted that he lost some of them along the way. He was accused of lying by some contemporaries, though the veracity of those claims is ...
Romans followed in the Greek footsteps, offering spice cakes to the gods. They brought ginger from India, probably overland, and used it for digestion as well as for a seasoning. Marco Polo claimed to have discovered gingerbread in China, but Egyptians ate it in the days of the pharaohs. ...
MARCO POLIMENI // Wikimedia Commons 1947: Polaroid cameras The first Polaroid camera debuted in 1947. The invention revolutionized the field of photography, making it more accessible to everyday people—until the advent of digital cameras. In 2008 and 2009, Polaroid announced that it would stop ...