His army was too small to prevail on its own, but he had an exotic ally with whom he had ... The East after the disintegration of the Mongol Empire. Credit: Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons It ...

The find includes arrowheads, axes, and a rare Y-shaped fork believed to date back to the 13th and 14th centuries – a time when the Mongol Empire was at its height. Researchers from the Humanities ...

Loading At its height ... Empire (modern-day Iran and Afghanistan), the city was quickly built up by the warlord’s successor, Ogedei Khan. It served as the capital of the Mongol Empire between ...

Completed just 10 years later, it was 216ft (66m) tall, assembled from 130,000 tonnes of granite: second only to Egypt's pyramids in height. At its heart ... 13th Century, in Mongol-ruled China ...

A map of the Carolingian Empire's borders at its height in 814 C.E. (outlined in pink) and its subsequent partition in 843 C.E. (outlined in orange, green and purple) Public domain via Wikimedia ...

For most of Hadrian’s reign, the empire was at relative peace—the Pax Romana, or “Roman Peace,” was at its height ... Matthew Paris’ 13th-century map showing Hadrian’s Wall and ...

Kant was aware of its ... Empire, in turn, came apart, due less to the Crusades (between 1069 and 1291) than to devastating invasions by the Mongols, between 1219 (when Genghis Khan was at his ...

Kharkhorum, the one-time seat of the vast Mongol Empire, was so renowned in its day that travelers from ... including magnetic equipment, to make a map of the city without excavations.

Comparison of the British Empire (red) and the Mongol empire (blue) when each was at its height (at different times in history) The Mongol Empire started in 1206 when the warlord Genghis Khan ...

Founding of the city by Seleucus I The city was the capital of the Seleucid Empire until 63 BC when the Romans took ... The city may have had up to 500,000 people at its height, but it declined to ...