The Mongol Empire embodied all of those tensions ... But he proved to be one of history’s greatest leaders. At the time, Mongolia’s nomadic farmers relied on the land to sustain them.

The Mongolian Empire spanned between southeast Asia and eastern Europe at its greatest extent, and encompassed an area of about nine million square miles. During his lifetime, Genghis Khan also ...

Genghis Khan was a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Europe. Much about Genghis Khan remains unknown. For instance ...

China was never ruled by outside powers until then. The Arab Empire was at its glorious heights with Baghdad being the world’s greatest city. Until the Mongols, of course. Indians barely avoided ...

The capital of the Mongol Empire has been mapped in unprecedented detail. It turns out that the city of Karakorum was far larger than once thought and was quite unlike medieval European cities in ...

Karakorum served as the capital of the Mongol Empire during the 13th century ... “It was astonishing to witness the growing extent of the map day by day, and with that the digital reconstruction ...