Genghis Khan is a name that conjures images of brutal warfare, sweeping conquests, and an empire that stretched across ...

As the years passed, the Mongol Empire began to crumble under the weight of internal divisions and external pressures. The khanates drifted apart, succumbing to local revolts and the resurgence of ...

Mongolia’s Bogd Khan Uul was originally protected by an ally of Genghis Khan and is home to Bronze Age petroglyphs, ...

Pascal Mannaerts is a Belgian photographer whose work has taken him around the globe for the last 10 years. He’s hung out with Qasqhai nomads in Iran, seen the bull jumping ritual of the Hamer tribes ...

Life on the taiga isn’t easy. There’s a constant threat of wolves. The temperatures (and weather in general) are unpredictable. And good luck with cell phone service – you’re much too far north, and ...

(CNN) — In many travelers’ minds, Mongolia conjures images of vast plains, nomadic gers, desert landscapes and one of the most famous warriors of all time, Genghis Khan. Though the famed first khagan ...

Researchers studying the rings of ancient trees in mountainous central Mongolia think they may have gotten at the mystery of how small bands of nomadic Mongol horsemen united to conquer much of the ...