Kublai Khan’s invasion of Java did not fail because the Mongols were weak — it failed because they walked into a political trap they did not fully understand. This video follows how a mission meant to ...

The ship was sunk by the “divine wind” that saved Japan from the Mongol invasion of 1281.

A shipwreck dating to roughly 745 years ago has been identified off the coast of Takashima island in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, adding to a small but growing collection of vessels tied to the Mongol ...