RFE/RL correspondent Daisy Sindelar and multimedia producer Margot Buff have been exploring Mongolia for a week. -- Eds. The picture above, from the 1960s, shows a history lesson in progress at Ulan ...

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ULAANBAATAAR, Mongolia — A rare flower has bloomed in the cold, empty deserts through which once thundered the marauding hordes of Genghis Khan. Mongolia is an enormous landlocked country caught ...

New research into ancient Mongolian burial mounds, known as khirigsuurs, is challenging long-held assumptions about the scale of communal feasting that took place at these monumental sites during the ...

In November, Yale archaeologist William Honeychurch received the Order of the Polar Star from Mongolia — the highest civilian honor the country’s government bestows on foreign citizens. In accepting ...

Researchers examined stable isotopes from bone collagen and dental enamel to reconstruct the diets of ancient Mongolians. Findings challenge the popular notion of a completely nomadic prehistoric ...

Last month, the Dalai Lama traveled to Mongolia, a country with long religious and cultural ties to Tibet. Despite the trip being billed as “purely religious” in nature, Chinese authorities ...

Pope Francis made history Friday morning when he became the first Pope to travel to Mongolia, the world’s most sparsely populated sovereign country. The papal plane touched down in the Mongolian ...