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Covering an area of 11,000 sq metres (118,000 sq. feet), the Villa San Marco at Stabiae (modern Castelammare di Stabia) is among the largest Roman residential villas in the Vesuvian area (southern Italy). It was built in the 1st century BCE...

The walls of the portico of the peristyle of Villa San Marco in Stabiae (Italy) are decorated in the Fourth Pompeian Style with red panels on black background above a lower black frieze. Mid-1st century CE.

An 1881 oil on canvas, Piazza San Marco, Venice, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. As the artist was experimenting with a new style, this work was painted with very loose brushstrokes and largely unmixed...

In this second video about great explorers, let's retrace the Travels of Marco Polo across Asia, accompanied by his father and his uncle.

Xanadu (aka Shangdu, Shang-tu, and Kaiping) located in Inner Mongolia, northern China, was first the capital (1263-73) and then the summer capital (1274-1364) of the Mongol Empire. It came to prominence during the reign of Kublai Khan (r...

Kublai Khan (Qubilai-Qan) was the ruler of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294. His accomplishments include establishing Mongol rule in China under the name of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), thus becoming the first non-Chinese to rule the...

Ibn Battuta (l. 1304-1368/69) was a Moroccan explorer from Tangier whose expeditions took him further than any other traveler of his time and resulted in his famous work, The Rihla of Ibn Battuta. Scholar Douglas Bullis notes that “rihla”...

The Doge's Palace, or Palazzo Ducale, in Venice, Italy, was the seat of power of one of the world's most powerful city-states, as the Venetian Republic dominated the Mediterranean for centuries. The bright façade of the palace marks the very...

The Yuan Dynasty was established by the Mongols and ruled China from 1271 to 1368. Their first emperor was Kublai Khan (r. 1260-1294) who finally defeated the Song Dynasty which had reigned in China since 960. Stability and peace within China...

The Chagatai Khanate (also Chaghatai, Jagatai, Chaghatay or Ca'adai, c. 1227-1363 CE) was that part of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) which covered what is today mostly Uzbekistan, southern Kazakhstan, and western Tajikistan. The khanate...