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February 18th, 2011, 01:15 PM
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#1 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 42 | Tomb of Genghis Khan.
Nobody has ever found the tomb of ANY great Khan. The tomb of Genghis was supposed to contain a thousand camel loads of gold and jewels.
Where do you think that it was hidden? I would say that the tomb was located in one of the cities that he empied completely with slaughter. He could then have had people re-inahibit the city after his death, and his hoard would be hidden in plain sight.
What do you guys think?
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February 18th, 2011, 01:17 PM
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#2 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,840 |
From what I know of the Mongol life, finding Genghis' tomb is not going to happen. I don't think whatever they built, for the dead, was meant to last.
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February 18th, 2011, 01:38 PM
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#3 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2010 From: Oregon Posts: 1,137 |
Clever as they were, the Mongols had little knowledge of earth-penetrating radar, sonar, magnetometers, and Google Earth. I think that tomb will be found someday. My guess is it's somewhere on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal.
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February 18th, 2011, 01:41 PM
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#4 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 42 |
yea alot of people think its in lake Baikal. A good guess.
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February 18th, 2011, 01:41 PM
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#5 | | Young, Wild, and Free
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Da Bay Posts: 4,279 |
From what I heard archeologists have discovered a possible location of the tomb but the Mongolian government is denying excavation rights. I don't know if this is still true today since I heard this awhile back.
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February 18th, 2011, 01:53 PM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,477 | Quote:
Originally Posted by tjadams  From what I know of the Mongol life, finding Genghis' tomb is not going to happen. I don't think whatever they built, for the dead, was meant to last. | I agree. They don't strike me as the type that would build large, long lasting tombs. Genghis may have simply been put into a coffin and buried. By now there may be nothing left of his burial place, except for a some bones.
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February 18th, 2011, 01:55 PM
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#7 | | Ye olde librarian
Joined: Oct 2010 From: Florida Posts: 2,462 |
Did they bury their dead? Or did they burn them. I would have thought the latter.
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February 18th, 2011, 02:03 PM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,477 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Clemmie Did they bury their dead? Or did they burn them. I would have thought the latter. | According to the legend of his burial, they did bury. There was a hundred men that worked to bury Genghis Khan. Those men rode across Khan's grave with horses several times, to hide any evidence that someone was buried there. Then those men went to a different site, where they were killed by a hundred others. Then those men were killed at a third site. This was done to make sure no one would know where the Great Khan's grave was located. Or at least that's the legend.
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February 18th, 2011, 02:04 PM
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Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 24,009 |
There is a project to recruit everyday joes in order to help scan the countryside of Mongolia with Google Earth, looking for anomalies. The Valley of the Khans Project | | | |
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February 18th, 2011, 02:16 PM
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#10 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 42 |
If there is really gold in the tomb, isn't there a way that you could see the heat difference at sunset or something like that?
Or is there a mining company that can see use sonar to spot gold deposits from the air?
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