Genghis Khan was a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Europe. Much about Genghis Khan remains unknown. For instance, we don't ...

But a recent thread about Genghis Khan—yes, the 13th-century conqueror Genghis Khan—has people taking cancel culture to new heights. In a thread that has subsequently been locked, a Twitter user went ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. 1. He was a one-dimensional ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Genghis Khan may have died of bubonic plague, and not from blood loss after being castrated or ...

Genghis Khan unified the Mongols and created an enormous empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Ukraine by the time of his death in 1227; and his successors would go on to conquer even more ...

Approximately 16 million Asian men can consider themselves to be Genghis Khan's descendants, but there are no such men among the Russian population. These conclusions were made by Russian geneticists ...

Elon Musk quipped that he finds Genghis Khan “particularly interesting” — just days after a conservative influencer claimed she gave birth to the tech titan billionaire’s 13th child. “For some reason, ...

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