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Searching for Chingis Khan's Tomb in Mongolia

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Mongolia, Citizen Media, History

Although Chingis Khan [1] (aka Genghis Khan), the ‘world's most famous conqueror [2]‘, didn't want anybody to know where he was buried, people have stubbornly searched for his burial place for centuries. As Don Croner explains [3]:

[M]any assume that [Chingis Khan] must have been buried with a huge amount of treasure which would have an immense historical – to say nothing of monetary – value.