In 1258, Baghdad, once the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, fell to the Mongols, ending centuries of art, science, and empire ...

The last time Mongol troops entered Iraq was in 1258, when the grandson of Genghis Khan sacked Baghdad in a four-day siege so bloody that legend has it the rivers ran red for days. Eight centuries ...

The Mongol fleet struck by storm at sea, from the Livre des Merveilles (early 15th century) - Getty As Genghis Khan lay dying in August 1227, he commanded his heir, Ögedei, to continue the mission of ...

Favereau’s history of the Horde, a nomadic regime that grew out of the Mongol leader Genghis Khan’s expansion of his empire in the early thirteenth century and lasted for over two centuries, relies on ...

The first visit of a Russian leader to the then capital Karakorum took place in 1247, when the whole of Russia and the whole of Asia were subjugated to the Great Khan Baty, Genghis Khan's heir. Putin ...

In 1206, Genghis Khan, a fierce tribal chieftain from northern Mongolia, began to take over the world. The khan's ruthless tactics and loyal horde swept across Asia. One territory after another fell ...

This is the story of how the largest contiguous empire humanity has ever seen was forged. Based on historical records, it is written as a fictionalized account of the Mongol war machine, known to ...

Viral DNA recovered from ancient human remains sheds light on HBV's evolutionary past. Maybe I'm missing something, but the paper seems to be about sequencing the DNA of ~2000 BC Bronze Age nomads, ...