As the second season of the Netflix original series “Marco Polo” opens, the Mongol Empire is dealing with the aftermath of its victory over the Chinese Song Dynasty at Xiangyang in the first season ...

OK, so we're all watching Marco Polo solely because of the Chinese characters, right, because the only thing that the show really nails is turning the Yuan Dynasty's medieval Chinese empire into a ...

Archaeologists may have finally solved the mystery of where Kublai Khan's legendary Yuan dynasty palace once stood. During underground renovations at the Palace Museum in Beijing, experts found "a ...

Leading the Mongols to defeat China, Kublai Khan fulfilled his grandfather's ambitions to rule one of history’s largest empires. Kublai Khan’s portrait was painted after his death in 1294 and hangs in ...

A dazzling new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the cosmopolitanism that flourished during the reign of Kublai Khan, one of the medieval world’s most powerful emperors For ...

A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...

NEW YORK — Two towering men of stone that once stood sentry outside a tomb now welcome visitors to a display of the kind of treasures, many never before exhibited outside China, that dazzled Marco ...

HOHHOT: Chinese archaeologists said here yesterday they have sketched the layout of Kublai Khan's first capital, known as Xanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes, through a large-scale excavation. "The ...

Mongolia on Wednesday celebrated the 800th birthday of epic conqueror Kublai Khan, a source of intense pride in a country trying to highlight its own history after centuries of Russian and Chinese ...

Ahmad, the chief antagonist of “Marco Polo” season 2 on Netflix, is a great, layered character. At the end of season 1, it was revealed that Ahmad, played by Mahesh Jadu, has been plotting to take ...