Daily Medieval

Arghun Khan (1258 - 1291) was the son of Abaqa Khan and ruler of the Ilkhanate, in the southwestern part of the Mongol Empire. Arghun (shown...

After spending time at the court of Kublai Khan , Niccolò and Maffeo Polo tried to get home to Venice and to deliver a letter from Kublai t...

Marco Polo didn't get to China on his own; he was taken there as a young man by his father and uncle, who had been there before. Why? B...