Aibolat Kushkumbayev / Qalam

Gold buckle depicting a boar-hunting scene, 2nd–1st centuries BCE, Tajikistan. National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan / Wikimedia Commons

Samurai Takezaki Suenaga fighting Mongol warriors during the Battle of Bun’ei (1274). Illustration from the scroll Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba (Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasion of Japan), c. 1293 / Wikimedia Commons

Mongol lamellar armor of the Yuan period / Wikimedia Commons

Mongol war mask, 12-14th century / Wikimedia Commons

Statue of Jochi in Mongolia / Wikimedia Commons

Mongol warriors in lamellar armor. 14th-century miniature from the Diez Album. Berlin State Library / Wikimedia Commons

Mongol warriors beside a siege engine. Miniature from Rashid al-Din’s chronicle (Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh). University of Edinburgh Library, 14th century / Wikimedia Commons

The Mongol siege of Baghdad in 1258. Illustration from Rashid al-Din’s chronicle (Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh), c. 1430–1434. National Library of France / Wikimedia Commons

Janibek Khan in a fragment of the Catalan Atlas, late 14th century / Wikimedia Commons

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Triumph of Death, 1562 / Wikimedia Commons

Miniature from the Book of Marco Polo depicting Khutulun, 15th century, France / Wikimedia Commons