In 1335, the Mongol khanate in Persia collapsed; in the 1330s and 1340s the plague swept across Eurasia; and in 1368 the Mongol realm in China, known as the Yuan Empire, fell. Even though contact ...

From ancient conquests of land, agricultural products, and trade routes to modern geopolitical struggles for natural gas, oil, and minerals, the control over resources has shaped global politics and ...

The Buddhist deities depicted here have round faces, thick lips, deep-set eyes and high-bridged noses. Their physiques are ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and gave birth to the Earth, the ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

The legendary conqueror Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan) laid the foundations of the Mongol Empire and remains one ... is rightly synonymous with bloody conquest, Genghis Khan, whose impressive ...

ever-changing web of informal trading routes across the vast Eurasian landmass that evolved over more than a millennium of empire and invasion, destruction and rebuilding. I was curious if I would ...

Last weekend, the United States vacated the post of leader of the free world. Supporters of democracy the world over watching in disbelief as the US President and Vice-President berated, belittled ...