Karakorum, the capital city of the Mongol Empire in the 13th, wasn't like other cities of the time. Unlike European cities, its people spread out well beyond the walls, with no clear end to the ...

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 ...

In a significant milestone for the study and understanding of the Mongol Empire, archaeologists have mapped its capital of Karakorum. Physical traces of the ancient city, founded in the thirteenth ...

I was in Karakorum, Mongolia, the ancient capital city of the early Mongol empire. And it was here that some of the great Mongol emperors ruled not just with bows and arrows but paper. By Kabir ...

Once the capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum quickly became one of the Silk Road’s most progressive cities. Today, it may not look the same as it did during the days of Genghis Khan, but ...

Beginning in the 13th century, the Mongol Empire spread across Asia and into the Middle East like wildfire, growing into the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever seen.

The capital of the Mongol Empire was the city of Karakorum, located hundreds of miles south of the cemetery, according to the journal Antiquity. A gold Buddha figurine was also uncovered, ...