Greatest empires in history that ruled over half the world; Largest ever is… . From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the ...

Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire in 1227 and at its greatest extent in 1279. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Around 1200, Temüjin and his friend Toghrul launched a campaign against the Tatars, a group ...

This article explores some of the biggest and most influential empires in the world, from the British Empire to the Mongol Empire.

Finding out about their greatest territorial extent and how they eventually lost land over time, reaching their current borders.

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 ...

The Mongolian Empire covered nine million square miles at its greatest extent in the late 13th century – but where is Genghis Khan’s tomb? (Picture: metro.co.uk) It was five times the size of ...

The former president of Mongolia has thrown shade at Vladimir Putin’s much-ridiculed claim in an interview with Tucker Carlson that Ukraine has always been a part of the Russian empire. Present ...

At the time, the Mongol Empire was the largest the world had seen. How did they do it?

The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction ...