"With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states ...

An illustration, based on a 15th century author’s imagining, of the court of the Great Khan in the 1200s. Credit: National Library of France On January 4, 1254, a French monk named William of Rubruck ...

Burkhan Khan, Genghis Khan’s grandson, embraced Islam and defied Hulagu Khan. His faith, strategy, and courage reshaped Mongol history and inspired the Muslim world.

The Mongol Empire, once the largest contiguous land empire in history, began to fragment in the 1260s. Traditional explanations for its dissolution focus on internal strife following the death of ...

"This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It begins with an overview of administrative ...

Drone photo of Cluster 27 in northeastern Mongolia. A red circle marks the location of the excavated burial. The inset map shows the location of Cluster 27 in red and two other enclosure sites along ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: We take a look at the increasingly strained history of ethnic ties between China and Mongolia, Japan’s new prime minister makes clear ...

THE admission of the Mongolian People’s Republic to the United Nations in 1961 aroused sudden interest in a country which, though it had not itself sealed its frontiers or made itself a hermit land, ...

(The Conversation) — The Catholic community that Pope Francis will visit later this month has a complex history that goes back to the 13th century, when the Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan.