Trabajadores de la construcción empleados en la construcción de carreteras cerca del río Onon en la provincia de Khentii de Mongolia, han descubierto una fosa común que contiene los restos de muchas docenas de cadáveres humanos que yacen sobre una gran estructura de piedra rudimentaria.
Se llamó a expertos forenses y arqueólogos al sitio, que se reveló como una tumba real mongola del siglo XIII que los científicos creen que es de Genghis Khan.
El equipo de científicos afiliados a la Universidad de Beijing concluyó que los numerosos esqueletos ʙuʀιᴇᴅ en la parte superior de la estructura probablemente eran los esclavos que la construyeron y que luego fueron мᴀssᴀcʀᴇᴅ para mantener el secreto de la ubicación.
Los ʀᴇмᴀιɴs de doce caballos también se encontraron en el sitio, ciertamente sᴀcʀιғιcᴇᴅ para acompañar al Gran Khan en ᴅᴇᴀтн.
A total of 68 skeletons were found ʙuʀιᴇᴅ together, almost directly over the top of a rather crude stone structure
The content of the tomb was scattered and badly deteriorated, presumably due to the fact that the site was located beneath the river bed for hundreds of years until the course of the Onon river changed in the 18th century. The ʀᴇмᴀιɴs of a tall male and sixteen female skeletons were identified among hundreds of gold and silver artifacts and thousands of coins.
The women are presumed to have been wives and concubines of the leader, who were κιʟʟᴇᴅ to accompany the warlord in the afterlife.
The amount of treasure and the number of sᴀcʀιғιcᴇᴅ animals and people, have immediately led the archaeologists to consider that the site was certainly the ʙuʀιᴇᴅ site of a really powerful Mongol warlord.
After realizing an extensive set of tests and analysis, they were able to confirm that the ʙoᴅʏ belonged to a man aged between 60 and 75, who ᴅιᴇᴅ between 1215 and 1235 AD.
Both the age, the date, the location, and the opulence of the site seem to confirm that the tomb does indeed belong to Genghis Khan.
The simple rock dome discovered by the archaeologists, was presumably ʙuʀιᴇᴅ beneath the Onon river for centuries. The incontestable historical importance of Genghis Khan makes this new discovery one of the most important in the history of archaeology.
Born Temüjin (which means “of iron”), he was the founder and ԍʀᴇᴀтκнᴀɴ (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He is known for uniting the tribes of Mongolia and merging them into one before launching a series of military campaigns in cнιɴᴀ, Central Asia, the Middle East and even Eastern Europe.
He conquered more than 31 million square kilometers of land during his lifetime. His legacy has taken many forms besides his conquest and can still be found today, making him one of the most influential men in the history of mankind.
He connected the East and the West through the creation of the Silk Route, a trade route that would become and remain for centuries, the main network of trade and cultural transmission in Eurasia, opening long-distance, political and economic interactions between the civilizations.
Genghis Khan also has an incredible number of descendants, as some genetic studies have shown that he could be the direct ancestor of 1 human out every 200 who are alive today. In Mongolia alone as many as 200,000 of the country’s 2 million people could be Genghis Khan descendants.
