When Westerners think of Genghis Khan, we tend to focus on the whole raping-and-pillaging thing. But in the imagination of many Asians, the 13 th-century Mongol warrior, who united the nomadic tribes ...

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 ...

You'll have heard the name. Here's why. "Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols" tells the story of a man who built an empire that stretched from China to Mesopotamia and from the Danube to ...

In the early 1200s, Genghis Khan united the warring Mongolian tribes into a mobile, efficient military state. Lashing outward in all directions from their home on Central Asia's steppe, the Mongolian ...

(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 ...

In the beginning of the 13th century, Genghis Khan conquered much of Asia and Eastern Europe, forming the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever known, spanning modern China, Korea, Russia, ...