"The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features 200 works of art. Many are being shown outside of China for the first time. It focuses on ...

How about a visit to the Met to see some rare ancient Chinese art, newly discovered and never seen until now? Dana Tyler takes us to the world of Khubilai Khan.

NEW YORK — In the West, Khubilai Khan is most often remembered as the richest man in history, thanks mostly to Marco Polo’s fantastic memoir of his travel to the great Khan’s capital at ...

(The Japanese kamikaze pilots of the Second World War believed that they were recreating the divine wind that saved their nation.) In Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet, Vancouver author and marine ...

In the early 1250s, Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his younger brothers Qubilai and Hulegu to consolidate his grip on power. Hulegu completed ...

There, in 1279 after repeated engagements, the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan routed the Song navy, completing the grand plan of his grandfather, Genghis Khan: the conquest of China. In the wake of ...

Khubilai, the grandson of Ghenghis, established the Yuan dynasty in 1271, and ruled an empire that extended from Mongolia to the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Russia. China was ...