A 40-metre-tall statue of Genghis Khan at a museum to celebrate the legendary Mongolian ruler near Ulaanbaatar. (Photo: AP) ...

He compares Genghis Khan's foul reputation to that of the Vikings, perpetuated by those who "were on the wrong end of the sword." A statue of the warmonger in Washington might be "controversial ...

A closer view of the 131-foot, stainless-steel Genghis Khan statue. (Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times) Designed by Rich Tailor, this bighorn statue was presented by Canada to Mongolia in 2006 and ...

Genghis Khan sits astride a stallion, grimacing as he clutches a gold-tinted stainless-steel whip. The statue’s pedestal is a columned, white-granite rotunda, and everything inside the rotunda ...

His end didn't begin heroically. A guard walks down a set of stairs in front of the Genghis Khan statue at the Parliament Building of Mongolia in Ulan Bator on June 22, 2012. Mark Ralston/AFP ...

One of history’s most influential figures has been drawn into a Chinese government campaign to impose ethnic conformity on people of Mongolian descent. Genghis Khan, the 12th-century conqueror ...