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Born in Venice in 1254, Marco Polo is one of the most important travelers and merchants of the Middle Ages. He lost his mother at an early age and spent his childhood under the care of relatives, receiving a good education due to his father Niccolò and uncle Matteo’s commercial activities in the East. Generated by Artificial Intelligence. " image-alternate="" image-element-format="right"> The Great Journey to Asia (1271–1295) In 1271, at the age of just 17, Marco Polo set out with his father

Tilmen Höyük is an important archaeological settlement located approximately 10 kilometers east of the district of Gaziantep, 2 kilometers west of the village of Yelliburun. It lies in the center of a hilly plain surrounded by volcanic basalt veins and hillocks. The mound consists of an oval-shaped hill 21 meters high, 220 meters long and 150 meters wide, with a 160-meter-long spur extending toward the west. The settlement area is surrounded by water channels formed by tributaries of the Karasu

When flipping through the pages of history, especially when the Middle Ages are concerned, we are often confronted with two extreme figures: noble ladies awaiting rescue in their towers, immortalized in poetry (the queens of courtly love literature), or saints cloaked in divine silence along the dim corridors of monasteries. But what about the rest? Where are the millions of “ordinary” women who toiled in the fields with the plow, wove cloth in town markets, traded silk, and struggled day and ni