The rise of the Mongol Empire under Temujin, or Genghis Khan, was a seminal moment in world history. The conquests of the ...

Mysterious Treasures: Every person in the world wants to have wealth, diamonds, jewels, and gold and silver. Throughout ...

The city hopes the scheduled recovery attempt will lead to further research on the mysterious invasion attempts. The Mongol Empire attempted to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281, both during the ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Over the centuries, the global order has shifted at regular intervals. With the rise of Third World powers, the post-Cold War ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Known as the Taghbach, this group migrated south from the Mongolian steppe and ruled a multiethnic and multicultural empire from Luoyang, the world’s largest city and the former capital of the ...

Meanwhile, the launch of the inaugural Bukhara Biennial later this year will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence ...