The Mongols, led by Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan), captured ... authority and fostering widespread corruption within the court. Sidao’s tactics included purging rivals and replacing ...

Gateway to the canals and lagoons of the Kerala backwaters and to the Arabian Sea, Kochi was for centuries a major hub for ...

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, ...

In China, Polo became a well-respected figure in Khan's court. While his exact position ... was not the one Europeans expected, but rather: Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire. As a source of historical ...

Alas, when Kublai Khan moved the capital to Xanadu in 1260 ... Loading But it declined in importance when the royal court moved to Thebes in about 2040 BC. Egypt’s eventual shift to Christianity ...

The Yuan dynasty, founded in 1271 by Kublai Khan, finally overcame the last Song resistance at ... for example… Several great artists were admitted to the imperial court, the most famous among them ...

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a notice to AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan in connection with the Delhi Waqf Board money laundering case. A bench of Justice Vikash Mahajan was hearing a ...

Before and after being presented in court today, some of the accused spoke briefly with journalists. At that time, a journalist asked Shajahan Khan how he was doing. In response, he said ...

A Delhi court granted AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan one-day protection from arrest after he was booked for allegedly attacking a police team. The court will decide on his anticipatory bail plea on ...

From Kublai Khan to Chairman Mao, China has a storied history of towering figures when it comes to state affairs. None, though, have loomed larger than the former basketball star Yao Ming ...

A Delhi court granted pre-arrest bail to AAP leader Amanatullan Khan, who faced charges for allegedly attacking a police team in Jamia Nagar. The police sought to interrogate Khan over the ...