Jurchen Jin emerged in about A.D. 1115 amid rebellions against the region's earlier Liao Dynasty, and fell to the invading Mongols in 1234.

The tombs, located in the city of Changzhi in Shanxi province, are from the Jurchen Jin — or "Great Jin" — dynasty, which ruled in northern China between 1115 and 1234.. But the Jurchen Jin ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

It was built between 826 and 1,125 years ago by a collection of warring dynasties, most notably the Jin dynasty, which was founded by Jurchen people from Siberia and northeastern China.

"The Khar Nuur burial is located in an eastern region that was inhabited by groups participating in the 12th century Mongol emergence and, before that, part of the Kitan and Jurchen Jin frontier ...

A: The Great Wall is not a single-layered lengthy wall as most photos would suggest. It is a multi-layered, systematic set of fortifications. Take, for instance, the Great Wall of the Jurchen-Jin ...

In the jigsaw puzzle of China's rulers and ethnic groups, the 12th-century Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234) is one of the least known, particularly outside China. Sweeping down from the steppes of ...

In 1161, Wanyan Liang, emperor of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, planned to invade the Southern Song Dynasty. Owing to the harsh recruitment policy and the Jin's cruelty, people in the Central Plain ...