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Join Us On Facebook Close. Poll of the day Which is the oldest Ratha Yatra in the world? But the manner of his death is unknown. It is reasonable to believe that he died of injuries sustained during the battle. It is also reasonable to believe that those wounds came not from an enemy arrow, as asserted by Marco Polo, but from falling off his horse during hunting, according to The Secret History of the Mongols— a semi-mythical genealogy of Genghis Khan written sometime after his death.
It is unreasonable to believe that Genghis Khan died of bleeding when a crafty Western Xia princess, that the Mongols had carried off as war booty, inserted a contraption into her vagina so that when Genghis Khan came to sleep with her, it tore off his organs. Long before his death, Genghis Khan is said to have wished to be buried in an unmarked grave in the mountains of Burkhan Khaldun.
According to The Secret History of the Mongols , Genghis Khan was hunting near the Burkhan Khaldun mountain in the Khentii Mountains of his homeland, when he sat down to rest under a tree, and was so overcame by the beauty of the landscape before him that he asked to be buried in the mountains.
Burkhan Khaldun holds another significance in the life of Genghis Khan. Once while fighting against the Merkit tribes, Genghis Khan narrowly escaped death and fled to the sacred precincts of the Burkhan Khaldun mountains where he was given shelter by an old woman.
He pledged at that time to honor the mountain from then on with sacrifices and prayer every morning. Nothing marks the place—no mausoleum, no temple, no tombstone. An American-financed expedition to find the tomb stopped work in after being accused by a prominent Mongolian politician of desecrating traditional rulers' graves. In , Japanese archaeologists terminated a search for the tomb after a poll in Ulan Bator found the project unpopular.
According to Mongolian tradition, violating ancestral tombs destroys the soul that serves as protector. If researchers do find the tomb, they would also likely discover the graves of Kublai Khan — Genghis' grandson who spread the Mongol empire to southeast Asia and became the first emperor of China's Yuan Dynasty — at the same time. According to ancient texts, 13 or 14 Khan warriors, including Genghis and Kublai, are buried in the same place. Kato said he would step aside and leave the matter of how to proceed up to his Mongolian colleagues if the team discovered the tombs.
It is up for Mongolians to decide. Upon his death he asked to be buried in secret. A grieving army carried his body home, killing anyone it met to hide the route. When the emperor was finally laid to rest, his soldiers rode 1, horses over his grave to destroy any remaining trace. This echoes the legend of Tamarlane, a 14th-Century Turkic-Mongolian king whose tomb was opened in by Soviet archaeologists. Superstitious people might call that cause and effect.
But Uelun, my translator, was having none of it. A young Mongolian with a degree in international relations from Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude, Russia, she did not seem superstitious. In her opinion, it is about respect. Genghis Khan did not want to be found. One thousand horses trampled the grave of Genghis Khan to destroy any trace Credit: Samuel Bergstrom.
Opening it now would violate his wishes. This was a common sentiment.
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