Subutai, known as Sübe’etei Ba’atar, stands as one of the most legendary military minds in history. As the foremost general ...

MATSUURA, Nagasaki Prefecture—Artifacts discovered on the seabed off Takashima island here were confirmed as parts of a shipwreck from the 13th century Mongol invasion of Japan. The findings included ...

Monumental in size and boldly illustrated, the Great Mongol Shahnama is the most celebrated of all medieval Persian manuscripts. Considered Iran’s national epic, the Shahnama (Book of kings) was ...

Uuganaa Ramsay was raised in Mongolia but now lives in Scotland. She has recently been exploring why her ethnicity is linked to Down's syndrome, a condition diagnosed in her son. "I don't like that ...

An illustration from a medieval French manuscript depicts the Polo brothers’ meeting with Kublai Khan. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Subscribe for ads-free reading This year marks the ...

In September, Pope Francis became the first leader of the Catholic Church ever to visit Mongolia. It must have been a humbling stopover. The country has fewer than fifteen hundred Catholics. The ...

In the late thirteenth century, the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan made two unsuccessful attempts to invade Japan. Historian Kawai Atsushi gives the background to the invasion, examines different ...

He urged jurors to think of Mongol members as “men … empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor, roaming the world like urban predators, searching for people to victimize.” The jury began ...