Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...

and in 1368 the Mongol realm in China, known as the Yuan Empire, fell. Even though contact between France and the Mongols was interrupted for decades, the French continued to read John of Plano ...

Were they descendants of the Xiongnu, the nomadic empire that once dominated the Mongolian steppe centuries earlier? Or were they a completely different group, their origins lost to time?

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This refers to the military forces of Genko, two military campaigns launched against Japan by the Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty) and its vassal state, Goguryeo, in the years 1274 and 1281.