What is the evidence that Marco Polo visited China?

Polo's claims about the size of paper money and the value of salt, among other aspects, check out against archaeological evidence and Chinese documents maintained by Yuan officials, Vogel concluded. Will we ever know whether Marco Polo traveled to China and attended Kublai Khan? read more

The Great Wall visited by tourists in Beijing was built during the Ming dynasty, long after Marco Polo had died. Instead, Marco Polo might have seen some older sections of wall form the Qin or Han dynasties, something like photographed above. read more

In a new book entitled “Marco Polo Was in China,” the professor of Chinese history counters the arguments most frequently made by skeptics in an attempt to prove once and for all that the Venetian spoke the truth. read more

is a 1995 book, by Frances Wood, arguing that Italian explorer Marco Polo never visited China but travelled no further than Persia and that he based his description of China on accounts from Persian travelers. read more