Could the Mongols have taken Europe? The Mongols were certainly world-class conquerors. In the thirteenth century, they ruled the largest contiguous land empire in history. It is commonplace to hear ...

Within two years, the Mongols utterly annihilated the empire: they sacked and destroyed its cities, chased the shah into ...

Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

"They were showing — they were doing a what they would do at the time of the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the 14 — in the 800s. And they — and then show what a normal day was ...

1° The magnificent example of an immediate, total, and unconditional disarmament given to the world in 1917 by LENIN at Brest-Litovsk—a disarmament whose revolutionary value is infinite—we do not ...

The flame-red Eierland lighthouse at the northern tip of Texel is the Dutch island’s most prominent landmark. On a dark night its light can be seen from Leeuwarden, 60 kilometres to the east, while by ...

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the ...

But are we doing enough in Europe to protect young people from screen addiction? Screen addiction among young people is seen as an excessive and compulsive use of smartphones, tablets, computers ...

Among Europe’s top five economies, Germany has the highest personal average tax rate at 37.4%. Italy follows with 30.4%, which is 7 percentage points lower. France sits in the middle at 28%.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has opened a new subsidiary company office in Paris to deepen its business ties with Europe. The office will drive the sovereign fund to engage closely with ...