From 200 B.C. to the fall of Rome, the Chinese and Roman empires were the world's two great civilizations. They knew each other only from afar. Marco Polo bridged the gap in the 13th century, but when he published his Travels in 1299, many Italians found his descriptions of China too weird to be true. Pity: the Chinese and Italians have much in common.
Noodle Nations
The discovery of 4,000-year old spaghetti in northwestern China this year probably closes the centuries-old debate on which culture invented noodles. But Italy gets credit for adding...
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