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

Below, in vague chronological order, are a few of my favorites.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Buddhist deities depicted here have round faces, thick lips, deep-set eyes and high-bridged noses. Their physiques are ...

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

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

Instead, they administered several towns and cities, pledging their loyalty to the Ilkhanids, the successors of the mighty ...