At present, the underground corridors, which had not been originally part of the castle, house an exhibition documenting ...

Genghis Khan died in 1227 fighting in China. Upon his successor’s death in 1259, squabbles over succession led to the Mongol ...

Russia's overlooked role in defeating Nazi GermanyThe Battle of Kursk: WWII's largest tank battleHow war reshaped Eastern ...

Jews were blamed for the plague. They were blamed for the Mongol invasion of Europe. They were blamed for the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. They have been the historic scapegoat for others.

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Empires / states that occupied Cyprus include Assyria, Egypt, Persia, Greek Ptolemaic Egypt, Rome, Arab caliphates, France, Venice, Mongol Ottoman ... by the military, invaded, and occupied ...

In the early 13th century, the warrior aristocracy of Christian Europe bound its ruling monarchs ... in response to the threat of a Mongol invasion, that helped lead to the breakdown of the ...