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...right, then somebody messed up. By all accounts, Genghis Khan wanted his tomb to remain hidden. Even his demise was a secret for a while: he died during a military campaign, and no one was told until the enemy ruler surrendered weeks later. Then a funeral procession made its way north to the Mongolian steppe, a route that took several more weeks. According to Marco Polo, who arrived in Mongolia about 60 years later, soldiers accompanying the procession killed everyone they encountered, as well as some 2,000 servants, who were allegedly buried with the Khan. Later the soldiers themselves...
...Except Kravitz -- says Kravitz. Archaeologists wish him well but seriously doubt his claims. Says Adam Kessler, who put together the Genghis Khan exhibit: "He has access to the same sources as everyone else, and we haven't managed to find the tomb. If he has any other information, he hasn't shared it." The latest unsuccessful attempt to locate the tomb took place between 1990 and 1992, when a Japanese team mounted an intensive high-tech search. "Maybe they didn't look thoroughly enough," Kravitz chuckles. Whatever Kravitz knows, he has persuaded the Mongolian government to give him exclusive rights...
...GENGHIS KHAN...
...talk about a man who knew what he wanted out of life. He also knew how to get it: after the tribal leader known as Temujen was crowned in A.D. 1206 as the Mongols' Genghis Khan -- "emperor of all emperors" -- he waged nearly continuous wars of conquest against his neighbors. By his death in 1227, Genghis Khan ruled most of the lands between the Sea of Japan and the Caspian Sea, an empire that encompassed two-thirds of the known world and far eclipsed the celebrated realms of Alexander the Great. To those who were overrun by the Khan...
...Mongols were indeed good at all that. But thanks in part to recent archaeological finds in the arid lands of Inner Mongolia, now part of China, historians have begun to realize this perception of the medieval Mongols is woefully one-dimensional. Genghis Khan, their most celebrated leader, was not merely a bloodthirsty killer but also a supreme military strategist and talented politician, as adept at forging alliances and gathering intelligence as he was at wreaking terror and havoc. And the Mongol civilization he ruled had a rich cultural and artistic heritage that went back at least 6,000 years...