Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week ...

In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

It’s part of the promise of the New World, that the Western Hemisphere would be, as the American revolutionary Thomas Paine said of the United States, an “asylum” for humanity. “Open,” echoed George ...

What happens when crusaders fight for a caliphate? This video tells the remarkable story of Christian warriors who served the Almoravid Caliphate against the Almohads. Set during the height of the ...

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 ...

In this gripping installment of Kings and Generals’ Mongol History series, we explore how Korea stood firm against the mighty Mongol Empire. ⚔️🇰🇷 Facing a series of brutal invasions ...

Mongol rule brought not only Mongolian culture, but influences from other parts of the empire as well, such as China and Persia. This was seen in areas like art, food, and military organization.

But the Mongol empire soon started to splinter into separate states under Genghis’s descendants: Crimea was ruled by the Mongol state known as the Golden Horde that controlled much of what is ...

In the 1200s, European rulers trembled before Mongol forces sacking their cities. But then the army withdrew—the reason why is still up for debate.