The Hu have yet to announce their second album, but there is new music to celebrate, as the chugging new rocker "This Is Mongol" has arrived, complete with a striking new video. The song is meant as a ...

Painting scrolls on the Mongol invasion of Japan by Fukuda Taika, a 1846 copy of a 1293 work by an unknown artist, Tokyo National Museum. The Mongol fleet beat the Song but had less luck with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ponies that carried Genghis Khan’s warriors are small, tough, and skittish as hell, making the prospect of riding them for 1,000 kilometers seem downright insane. American cowboy Will Grant couldn ...

Mongols were known for warfare but celebrated for productive peace. Humble steppe dwellers, Mongol leaders mastered the era’s most advanced technology. Embodying these tensions helped turn the Mongol ...

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 ...

When riding across the Mongolian steppe, one mistake can mean game over. This mistake can be anything, from losing a piece of kit to your horse stumbling in a marmot hole while navigating the vast ...