Archaeologists may have finally solved the mystery of where Kublai Khan's legendary Yuan dynasty palace once stood. During underground renovations at the Palace Museum in Beijing, experts found "a ...

Kublai Khan is said to have constructed an elaborate and fortified palace in Beijing. For years, it was thought the imperial residence had been located in the vicinity of the Forbidden City.

Chinese archaeologists believe they may have solved one of the great mysteries of antiquity in Beijing – the site of the imperial palace of the Yuan dynasty established by Kublai Khan in the ...

Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images Chinese archaeologists have gathered new evidence that Kublai Khan's legendary palace may lie beneath the foundations of Beijing's Forbidden City - also ...

Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, founded the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) and established the capital in Yanjing (the area of present day Beijing), which he named Dadu. Its city wall, a ...

Kublai Khan’s portrait was painted after his death in 1294 and hangs in the National Palace Museum ... southeast to Dadu (today the site of Beijing), also on the advice of Liu.

while a guest in the court of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo was stunned by the beautiful grassland enclosed in the imperial palace, which teemed with fruit trees and breeding animals such as deer and goats.

One was Kublai Khan. In the 13th Century ... Kublai's capital was Beijing. The city today goes on putting up scaffolding and high-rises. But it was Kublai who gave it its first big makeover.

In 1271, Kublai Khan named the new dynasty Yuan and declared ... Marco Polo himself wrote the emperor’s palace at Dadu a glowing review: “You must know that it is the greatest palace that ...