Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Where is Genghis Khan buried?
SHORT ANSWER In Mongolia, in the ground, but that’s all we know, as the great khan made sure he would rest in peace
LONG ANSWER The hunt for the tomb of Genghis Khan – founder of the Mongol Empire, which stretched from China to Europe – is still being conducted in the vast landscape of Mongolia. It’s mainly foreign archaeologists doing the searching, though, as Mongolians generally wish to respect their national hero by leaving him undisturbed, as per his instructions.
When Genghis Khan died on 18 August 1227, while on yet another military campaign in China, his body was brought back to his homeland for burial. The fearsome fighter had denied millions upon millions of people respect after death, as he had a proclivity for building pyramids from the skulls of those his forces had defeated and captured. But he ensured that he, at least, would rest in peace. Keeping to Mongol tradition, Genghis Khan reportedly went to extreme measures to be buried in a place with no markings.
According to legend, the soldiers of the funeral procession murdered everyone they passed, the slaves who built the tomb and then themselves. There have even been claims that a river was diverted in order to sink the tomb, or that 1,000 horses trampled over the ground to remove all evidence of what lay beneath.
What happened to the Roanoke colonists?
We still can’t definitively say what
