D alley claims the lack of archaeological evidence is due, rather, to the fact that the Gardens weren't located in Babylon at all, but rather in Nineveh, the capital city of Assyr ...

Much about Genghis Khan remains unknown. For instance, we don't really know what he looked like, because not a single authentic portrait of the man survives to the present day, Jean-Paul Roux, who ...

Genghis Khan’s empire reshaped continents—but did his genes do the same? In this episode, Kings and Generals explores the claim that millions of men alive today descend from the Mongol conqueror. With ...

In “Horseback Men,” Charles Badger Clark writes, “So, history’s mostly a horseback song, and set to the thud of the hoofs.” ...

Genghis Khan, Chinggis Khan, or Temujin, was the founder of the Mongol Empire and, after uniting the warring Mongol tribes, led them on a series of campaigns in which he conquered most of China ...

Postponed plans. The incursion into Europe was, however, an isolated one. The Mongol generals were ordered to redeploy and join Genghis Khan in his conquest of northern China some 3,700 miles away.

Discover the ancient technology that gave Kublai Khan a strategic edge in conquering China and shaping the course of history.

The new six-part docuseries "Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols" details the life of Genghis Khan, a fearless warrior and ruthless conqueror, his epic rise to notoriety, and the ...

Elon Musk quipped that he finds Genghis Khan “particularly interesting” — just days after a conservative influencer claimed she gave birth to the tech titan billionaire’s 13th child.

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

"There is probably no place on the planet so politically volatile as the Middle East. I don’t even pretend to know how to ...

Hundreds of young Mongolians turned out this week in the country's capital calling for the prime minister's resignation on allegations of corruption, a longstanding source of deep public anger in ...