Ironically it was the very destroyer of Baghdad, Halaku Khan under whose auspices the Maragha Observatory was established in the Ilkhanate in today's North Western Iran. The story goes that the ...
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The Observatory of Maragha
In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...
Genghis Khan wasn’t just the founder of the Mongol Empire—he may have left behind one of the biggest genetic legacies in ...