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 ...

This site showcases the powerful Xixia Dynasty (1038-1227), which served as a crucial Silk Road distribution center before being destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongol forces. The tombs offer rare insight ...

The Mongols created the largest contiguous land empire to have ever existed. Founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, the Mongol ...

A new study has mapped the evolution of this iconic creature across 12,000 years of rock art, revealing a stunning ...

Like many things in Mongolia, that mountain has a connection to Chinggis Khan (also known as Genghis Khan), who founded the Mongol empire in the 1200s and whose name and likeness are ubiquitous in ...

Japan's imperial couple commemorated compatriots who died in internment camps after the end of World War II during the first ...

On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkey’s most time-honored ...

The medieval Mongol archive, dating from the 13th century, had a profound influence on French maps and exploration.

Japanese researchers continue to survey the watery depths off the coast of Kyūshū in search of the Mongol Empire fleet sunk during an attempted invasion of Japan in the thirteenth century.

A recent archaeological discovery in Dornod Province, Mongolia, has unearthed an elite tomb dating from the pre-Mongol period, shedding new light on a historically obscure moment between the fall of ...