And no one looms larger in its history than Temujin, who took the title Genghis Khan, or Universal Ruler, after forging the world's largest land empire in the early 1200s. Evidence of a renewed ...

A statue of Kublai’s grandfather Genghis Khan is on display in Ulaanbaatar ... Shangdu (anglicized as Xanadu in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous 1816 poem “Kubla Khan”) became Kublai ...

Everybody is proud of Genghis Khan." The quest for the statue comes as the area's emerging Mongolian population, which numbers about 3,000 and is comparable to communities in Denver and Chicago ...

8. Genghis Khan probably would have hated the Genghis Khan statue. The famous statue of Genghis Khan on horseback in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. | Streluk/iStock via Getty Images Khan was infamously ...

Genghis Khan ... Kublai Khan ended up building two capitals: "Upper Capital", 125 miles from Beijing, called Shangdu, and the "Great Capital", Dadu, slightly northeast of the Chin capital. (This was ...

Genghis Khan and Emperor Kublai Khan statue on Khan Mountain inn Holingol, Tongliao City CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: A documentary charting an expedition to the ancient ...