Life on the Mongolian steppe begins with simple responsibilities, from caring for livestock and learning to ride to finding a place within a clan. As the years pass, that life expands into leadership, ...

Even if you learned about the Mongol invasions in history class, many people probably don't know much about what the battles ...

Eight centuries ago, in the latter days of the Islamic golden age, a young girl arrived in the Khwarazmian city of Tus. She was a slave. But she learned. Eight centuries ago, the Mongols blazed across ...

800 years ago, a young man rose to power in Mongolia. The world would never be the same. In the 12th century, a baby was born to a member of a Mongolian royal family named Yesügei. The baby came into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The view in October from a hill in northern Ulaanbaatar overlooking one of the city's many ger (yurt) districts. The view in ...

In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire. Excavations at a remote garrison site ...

Bilguun writes about the serious problem of waste and rubbish near Ulaan-Batar, the capital city of Mongolia. Some photos from the rubbish dump are attached. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...

THE admission of the Mongolian People’s Republic to the United Nations in 1961 aroused sudden interest in a country which, though it had not itself sealed its frontiers or made itself a hermit land, ...

The last living vestiges of Genghis Khan’s empire in China are disappearing as Mongol herders adopt modern lifestyles and are outnumbered by Han Chinese neighbors. To watch the video, please click ...