An illustration, based on a 15th century author’s imagining, of the court of the Great Khan in the 1200s. Credit: National Library of France On January 4, 1254, a French monk named William of ...

Deep within Mongolia’s Salkhit Valley, a lone skullcap has baffled scientists for years. Originally thought to belong to a mysterious, archaic hominin species, this fossil has now undergone ...

More than 3,000 years ago, the ancient people of Mongolia were experimenting with equine dentistry, making them the oldest known veterinary dentists on record. The earliest evidence of horse ...