Unsolved: The Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan was one of the world's most successful conquerors, and his empire left an indelible mark across Eurasia. Yet upon his death his body was spirited away to an unmarked grave, and everyone associated with the burial -- so far as we know -- was put to death in an effort to keep the location secret. So what exactly happened to Genghis Khan? Could it be possible that someone actually knows where it is, and has somehow kept the location hidden for almost 800 years?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. M Hello,

(00:24):
welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my
name is known. They called me Ben. We are joined
with our super producer, Paul the Condecand but most importantly,
you are you. You are here and that makes this
stuff they don't want you to know. Let's start off
on a high note today. Sure, let's do ray me

(00:45):
fossil Latti, do our way to death to death. Yeah,
let's uh, let's do that. So death, as it's often said,
is one of the main U nineteen experiences of humanity.
Eddie Right. No matter how different you are, how wealthy, poor, respected,
or ignored you are, one day you will die. Are

(01:07):
you a carbon based life form? Death a weights in need?
And one of the biggest differences between us human beings
listening to this and almost all other living things, including
machine consciousnesses that may be listening to this in the future,
is that we remember and venerate our dead, our loved ones,

(01:27):
or even our hated ones who have passed. Civilizations of
old channel this tremendous amount of energy in preparing for
their respective versions of the afterlife, and then created practices
that often continue in one form or another in the
modern day, like, for instance, I don't want to put
anybody on the spot, but it's safe to assume we

(01:49):
have all at one point thought about how we want
our death to be handled by the people who survive
after us. Yeah, generally in this country, it's do you
want to be put into the ground, your entire body
in its form as it exists, Perhaps it's modified, maybe
most of the insides have been taken out. Maybe you
get burned, which is an ancient practice of burning about it,

(02:11):
the ancient ritual of the sick burn yep, goes back
farther than you think it does. And on a side note,
I want to give a shout out to a fantastic
documentary that Paul actually made and I helped out a
little bit on it, which was about burial and death
specifically called Burial. Is it available right now? It is

(02:34):
not available, so you can't ever watch it ever, No, never,
you will never be able to watch it. So it's
without spoiling it. It is fantastic and alowing the way
we ran into some some very strange things about the
legality of burial here in the US. But while the

(02:54):
specific funeral rites and rituals of some civilizations may be
lost to time, we do have something equally amazing, some
people would say even more amazing, and that is physical
historical evidence of ancient people and their heroes, many of
whom are called villains. Today we are talking about tombs,

(03:16):
big tombs, not not just a little grave plot or
a place where you put ashes a tomb. Yeah, and
I think we figured out that the process or the
practice of tombs goes back to maslus was the idea
of it or innate you know, giant tomb that's decorative
like a mausoleum. That's where that name camelogy. Yeah. Pretty interesting. Yeah,

(03:38):
and it sounds morbid sure for us to to open
a show with this. Oh, by the way, conspiracy At
how stuff works dot com, we'd love to hear your
opinions of the best way to handle a dead body.
Are you undead or a spirit? How were you buried?
How did that go? Uh? And on some level it

(03:59):
is morbid. We have to think about it. Some of
the most meaningful buildings in human history are actually tombs,
the Pyramids of Egypt, the taj Mahal in India, even
Westminster Abbey in the UK. And today we're not just
talking about the tombs you can visit, and we're not
just talking about tourist tips for visiting a famous grave site. No,

(04:20):
we are exploring a genuine and successful cover up a
mystery spanning almost one thousand years that remains officially unsolved today.
Today we are searching for the lost tomb of Jengis Khan,
the very opposite of the tune that I was talking
about the mausoleum, which is an above ground tomb that

(04:40):
was a later development. We're talking about tombs that they
don't want you to find, not big old decorative suckers. Yes,
and specifically this fellow named Jengis Khan, who I hate
to admit, did call Genghis Khan quite a bit of
my life. Yeah, I think it's it's very common for
us here in the West, because you know, these are

(05:04):
two very different languages and we're talking about a vast
span of time. So even if you if you spoke Um,
an adjacent language of the time, the mispronunciation would be
very easy to run into and that's what Bill and
Ted called him. So and and you see that ge
just that yeah, yeah, give me a gu And also

(05:25):
English is such a pirate language. It just crabs things
arbitrarily and steals from other dictionaries. So let's let's look
at Jengis Khan from from a biographical perspective. Let's start
at level one to learn some more about him. His
real name was not Jengis Khan. He was born Timujin

(05:48):
in Mongolia around one thousand, one d and sixty two
uh CE, right correct. And he was named oddly enough
after a Tatar chieftain that his father had captured, so
it was a point of pride to name him after that.
He was a member of a tribe called the Vorgigen.
And by the way, we are going to most likely

(06:10):
mispronounce everything, but Jengis Khan here, and he Timujin was
a descendant of Kabbal Khan, who briefly united the Mongols
against the Chin dynasty of northern China in the early
eleven hundreds. Ben Khan isn't in the last name, right,
it's a title or like refers to being like a

(06:31):
king or According to the Secret History of the Mongols, Uh.
This fellow, tim o Jin was born holding a blood
clot in his hand, and that might sound weird today,
but back then it was an auspicious sign in Mongol folklore,
indicating that he was destined to become not just a leader,

(06:52):
but a great leader. And he did not have an
easy life. He was nine years old when his father
passed away. His father was poisoned after his father had
taken him to live with the family of his future wife,
who is named Borte. Uh. This marriage was super arranged,
as you can tell, right, and marrying for romantic notions

(07:16):
is also a relatively recent thing in the span of
human history. Uh. He. So he comes back his dad
dies when he's nine. He comes back to his clan
and he says, look, my father's dad, I am the leader,
and they laugh at him. You're nine. Uh. So he
and his half brothers and survivors of that line the
family are relegated to essentially a refugee status until they

(07:42):
go on a hunt and he gets in a fight
with his half brother over how to split the spoils
of the hunt, and he kills his half brother, a
guy named Bect. This makes him the head of the family. Officially,
there's no one to say ha ha ha. Right, yeah, officially,
he's presumably just like in a bit of blind rage
right there. I don't know, I'm trying to picture this scenario. Well,

(08:05):
I mean it was after right, so after a hunt,
you just exerted yourself a whole bunch of the whole
group of them. You get back and now you're disputing
like who gets what how much? And yeah, I can
imagine it was. I guess that's sort of a micro
cosmic version of what war is and conquering is. So
he just sort of took that notion and spread it out,
blew it up. And to be clear, the hierarchy here

(08:26):
is a little bit different. Unless you have a very
brutal family today, or unless your friendships are very brutal
things that I would not call friendships, you're probably gonna
be a little more fair with people and not as hierarchical.
But but it's a tradition plays a huge role in
his early life when we see it come out later

(08:48):
in the wash. So let's fast forward. He's about twenty
years old and the next terrible thing happens. There is
a raid by a group called the Tight Tight chee
Oats and they used to be allies of his family
and tribe, but they betrayed them and when they captured him,

(09:08):
they made him a slave. He eventually escapes and he
starts to form a fighting unit with his surviving brothers
and some other aligned clans people. And this is when
he begins to form his first army. He's twenty years old.
We're glossing over some of his biographical details and focusing

(09:28):
kind of in his military rise to power, but there's
a huge spiritual aspect to this as well. Search jingis
Khan biography on your favorite search thing. So he begins
the slowestcent of power. He builds this gigantic force of
more than twenty thousand people. He's just getting started. So
he says, you know, tradition has never been kind to

(09:51):
me and made my life very terrible up to this point.
So I'm going to destroy some of these traditional divisions
among various tribes, and I want all the people identifying
as Mongols to be under my rule. So he starts
out with these absolutely monstrous techniques and tactics to revenge

(10:14):
his father's death. First thing, he orders the killing of
every male of the Tatar tribe who is more than
three ft tall more than about three ft, so people
with growth problems would be the only male adults to
survive and children. The three ft rule was a hard
and fast thing. Or you think this is just like
the record shows, it's a think. It translates to the

(10:38):
the spoke or the axis of two willed cart interesting.
He also found his former slavers, the Tatius, and had
all of their chiefs spoiled alive. By twelve oh six,
he had defeated another tribe called the Naymans, and he
officially effectively gained control of central and eastern Mongol Alia.

(11:01):
And this is when the rest of the Mongols started saying,
I thought this guy's kind of wild because he was
fighting wars differently than anybody else had done before. I
don't want we don't have to spend too much time
on this, except for the really cool stuff. He had
a ton of spies. He stole every technology or tactic
that his enemies used that he thought was good. His

(11:22):
army grew to over eighty thousand soldiers, and one of
the questions you would ask is, how how the heck
do you communicate to eight thousand people? There's no radio,
and that's what set him apart, right, I mean he
was not only brutal, but crafty type. Yeah, yeah, he
They would use drums like other musical instruments, smoke signals

(11:44):
as ways to communicate pretty pretty good stuff flags even
I think, and um oh yeah, the fire was a
big deal, so the smoke signals, but then also a
torch itself, where you're like waving a torch in certain
ways or lighting certain number of torches. And I think
that terrain helped them to you because there was so
much flat land and the steps you could see pretty
easily clearly what the doth RACKI and Game of Thrones

(12:08):
are based on. Yeah, and this horde, the riders and
all that stuff. And George R. R. Martin has been
I think pretty forthcoming about that. I mean he use
can deny it. Yeah, if he tried to act like no, no, no,
this is my my thing, they see it's like, I
think it's really you guys are now looking at the
the Connates through the lens of Game of Thrones and

(12:30):
song advice of fire. So yeah, the soldiers did. We're
on horseback and the depiction and fiction got that right.
Depiction and fiction of drop it beat, right, But they
were also uniformed, much more so than the rack of fiction.
Each each soldier would be riding a horse often, but

(12:54):
they all had a bow, a shield, a dagger, a lasso.
And this was cool. They had saddle bags that were
waterproof so they could carry supplies. But if they were
in a if they were trying to afford a very deeper,
dangerous or rough river, they could empty the supplies, leave
it with their support system and make air bags to float.
You're kidding me, Like what Like they had a little

(13:16):
nipple they'd blow into and because their waterproof and they
can hold air. Yeah, it's it's like that old trick
we learned in boy Scouts about how to survive by
turning your genes into a flotation device. Sure, like the
way when you're when you grow in the water with
your jeans they fill up and puff up in the front. This,
I mean obviously incredibly innovative stuff here, the idea of

(13:38):
a lasso. Everything they had had a very specific purpose, right,
And that's that's pretty interesting. And then you mentioned um
off Mike that they had support staff. I guess bringing
up the rear and making sure they had the supply
chain that was opened up. I mean smart, smart maneuvering. Yeah,
the shamans who served as spiritual and medical aids, food supplies.

(14:00):
This was in by the way, this is the more
peaceful time. And after after watching Timojin ruined these first
three tribes, the rest started to fall in line. They
sued for peace, and that's when he got the title,
which is not his name, the title we know him
by today Jengis Khan, which means universal ruler, the Cohn
of cons the king of kings, like the Kal of

(14:25):
calls like cal Drogo, So it goes beyond what we
think of as a general or an admiral or something.
Because the leading shaman additionally declared that Jengis Khan was
the representative of the supreme god of the Mongols on earth,
Monkey Coco Tengri, the eternal blue Sky, and this meant

(14:47):
that as far as any practicing Mongol was concerned, it
was this guy's destiny to rule the world. They were
also very religiously tolerant. They thought religion was a personal matter,
super forward facing for the time, but with one exception.
To defy the Great Khan was to defy the will
of God with all the consequences that came along. When

(15:08):
there's a nice little recreation vignette and one of the
documentaries are gonna talk about later where um Timagen goes
to the top of a very important mountain that we'll
get too later and asks the sty the sky god
like what he should do. And that's supposedly where he
got the inspiration to go forth and conquer, and that
mountain plays a huge role to right. So twelve oh

(15:30):
seven he attacks a kingdom called and in twelve eleven
he takes the Shin dynasty in northern China, or he
tries to launches a bloody campaign the last twenty years.
In the West, he initially resorts the honest diplomacy. Let's
give it a try. Yeah, let's give it a shot.
He sends a diplomatic mission to an outfit called the

(15:52):
choaris M dynasty, and think of think of this as
like modern Persia, Afghanistan and Turkistan. And this is where
we see trade becoming the most one of the most
significant historical results of the Empire, because they're uniting the
East and the West, which normally did not have regular trades.
Requires a little more diplomacy rather than brute force. We

(16:14):
need to cooperate to make things better for each other
rather than kill each other. Right, we have to be
able to know that if we send silk somewhere leagues
and leagues away, they will return with our emissaries alive
and with the money we wanted to trade. But yeah,
this diplomatic mission did not turn out so great. Yeah, yeah, because,

(16:35):
as it turns out, establishing yourself through very well known
public acts of bloody revenge makes people hesitant to trust you.
So on the way his diplomatic caravan was attacked by
forces under the control of the governor of oh Trar.
The con was Piste. He demanded that the shaw of

(16:58):
the cars him give him the govern or. The shaw
not only said no, but he sent something in substitution.
He sent Jengis Khan, the head of one of the
diplomats he had sent. Now, this is outside of the
scope of this is an episode. But I did not
realize they were calling them shaws that far back. I
didn't know the history of that term went back to

(17:18):
this period. That that term has evolved through a lot
of different periods, and this this guy's title was that
but it was his title so much so that it
was his name, you know. And so he gets the
head of this diplomat. And this is what historians referred

(17:39):
to as you know, we should just say it the
technical term. It's when she hits the fan, so the
con is never the biggest fan of playing nice launches
an overwhelming attack that sweeps through Central Asia all the
way into Europe, changing the course of history. In twelve nineteen,
he sends two hundred thousands soldiers against this dynasty, the

(18:02):
kuaraz M dynasty, and the people in the way, the
people who are not immediately slaughtered or sexually assaulted to
the point of death, were driven in front of the
enemy to serve as human shields until they starved. And
you might be thinking to yourself, I haven't heard of
this karaz M dynasty. Yeah, there's a reason. I mean,
they were wiped from the record more, I mean from history,

(18:23):
you know. Yeah, in twelve twenty one, they were erased
from the face of the earth. No living thing was
spared on the way to that ratio. The livestock was
slaughtered along with all the men, women and children. The
army piled their victims skulls in these large pyramids shaped amounts,
and then in twelve one, yes, the con erased the

(18:44):
dynasty from the face of the planet, and after that
the empire entered into what passed for peace at the time.
There were a lot of progressive laws about crime, religion, trade,
there were even environmental considerations. That's pretty amazing, Yeah, but
it doesn't change the fact that everything that all of
the citizens of that let's call it, I don't know

(19:08):
civilization who was all built on blood, like every blood
bones rape that it's like blood money conquest. I mean,
you can't you know the people that were taken. I mean,
I don't know people that weren't killed, that were assimilated
into this culture and then had their families taken from them.
From them couldn't have been super stoked on the rulers here, right,

(19:28):
And this governing structure is set up so that the
conquered people are required to offer tribute, and a lot
of times that's going to be in terms of agricultural resources,
because this empire is hungry, right, And the empire will
also expect that vassal states or communities supply tribute in
terms of troops. When the Tanga dynasty of U refuses

(19:54):
to send troops for the cons big war against that
other dynasty. He rides out, sacks their capital, puts down
the rebellion, and just to make sure people get the message,
he executes the entire extended ruling family and he ends
their bloodline as well. So that's two dynasties wiped from
the face of the earth. And soon after that, the

(20:17):
Con himself dies. Well, damn, that's anti climactic, goblished so much,
and then it's just like, I'm out Alexander the Great
died at thirty two, thinking he was a failure, thinking
about all those twenty seven year old rock gods. When
you put it like that, I guess it makes sense.
But yeah, he's he's he's done. So how how does

(20:39):
how does he die? Man? Well, experts disagree on exactly
how the con expired, and that's one of the reasons
we're making this whole episode. Uh, the the details surrounding
his death where he's laid You're a lot of questions here.
There's a whole idea that perhaps he fell off a
horse because he was an old, he was an aging man,

(21:02):
he was getting older, and he died because of you know,
maybe a wound he had received in battle that wasn't
fully healed or something. Um, there's an idea that perhaps
he couldn't breathe very well as he's getting a little
bit older. Um, held, was he supposedly when he died, Well,
he died in twelve twenty seven, and uh, since he

(21:22):
was born way back in the day in eleven sixty two,
that makes him, Uh, that would be about sixty five. Yeah,
I mean not too shabby for for this day. Sixty
five years old. That's a great age. Um. One after
the Beatles song, which is nice, and um, he didn't

(21:42):
get to he didn't get to hear that song. Sadly well,
you know, assuming that he died. But because you'll hear
some people say, hey, what if he just never died,
but just on that island with Tupac And there's a
there's a whole other thing. The idea. It's a I
don't know, God, it's not a joke. It's kind of
a joke, but it's not the whole shot in the
knee thing. You got took an arrow to the knee,

(22:03):
and no, Nger is a used to be an adventurer,
but he can't anymore. I thought you would like that one.
I had to I had to put that in there.
That comes from Marco Polo. Marco Polo had written about
the rise and fall of the Khan and he heard
that just like the city guarden Skyram, the con was

(22:26):
shot in the knee and then he got infected. Do
you remember that? He says it like it's like every
character says that same you used to be I took
an arrow to the knee. Yeah, and uh, it's we
don't know if the folks made that game meant for
that to be such a reference, but we're going to
pretend it is. And please join along with this. Well,

(22:49):
it's certainly better than just falling off your horse when
you're meant to be this badass like leader Rider guy.
You know, that would be pretty embarrassing, especially with the
cultural importance based on horsemanship. So, following his tribal customs
the parts of the tradition that he did adhere too,
he was buried without markers somewhere allegedly near the place

(23:11):
of his birth. According to legends, the funeral escort that
carried him to this burial site killed anyone they saw
along the way and anything they encountered. The slaves who
built the site were killed. The soldiers who killed them

(23:31):
were killed by a different troop without you know, I
don't think those that first wave his soldiers knew effectively
creating uh this centuries version of an air gap security system,
like that scene in the Batman movie with the Joker,
the heath Heath Ledger Joker, that heist they pull off

(23:51):
where everybody kills everybody else until there's nobody left. But
this movie, i've seen it, I cannot remember that part says,
I think it's in the trailer. Uh So, the empire
goes on. Khan has bestowed supreme leadership to his son Ogdai,
who controls most of Eastern Asia, including China. He's divided

(24:15):
the rest of the empire amongst his other children. One
gets control over Central Asia northern Iran. The youngest gets
a small piece of land near Mongolia. His other son,
who had died before him, had already taken control of
modern day Russia with a son named Batu. They created
the legendary thing called the Golden Horde, and that is

(24:37):
more of I think that's probably the closest thing George R. R.
Martin's going for. Because those forces meet European forces and tactics,
and even in Game of Thrones there's the Golden Company,
which is another kind of horde that's more for higher Yeah,
there are mercenary crew and this empire eventually reaches all

(24:59):
the way to the gates of Vienna in Austria until
this is how fragile history is. Until the word of
the cons death reaches Batu, he's summoned back to Mongolia.
He turns east and we can only imagine that most
of the people and all points west of Vienna went.

(25:20):
So that seems like this doesn't really make a dumb move,
Like if you're already like ready to go, you've made
it this far. That really shows the ancestor, you know,
the respect for ancestors in this culture, like they're just
stopping what we're doing. We're done, We've got to go
back and take care of Dad. And the empire soldiered

(25:41):
on for a while, but you know, fame and power
messes with people, and the cons descendence eventually broke off
into smaller regions called kanates that did cooperate but later
became competitive. The trade system, most importantly began to break down,
and the rulers began to be seen by the common
folk as increasingly assimilated with the people they were supposed

(26:04):
to be ruling. So like they would say, the Mongolians
who are ruling part of China are no longer really Mongolian.
They're soft. So they kind of died with a whimper
and not a bang, No big final blood war, just
a little bit, just kind of faded into the background.
Kind of there was one factor that was bloody, and
it was not human. Humans just helped it along. At

(26:28):
the same time these empires begin to fall and assimilate,
the Black Plague strikes. It destabilizes the world. Trade networks
that were already suffering are falling into mass of disrepair
as everybody's trying to figure out why everyone around them
is dying. About of China's population falls to the plague,

(26:48):
as well as anywhere from five to fifty of the
population in Europe. So yeah, it's a it's it's a
grizzly rye is a grizzly fall. But regardless of whether
you think he is one of the world's best military commanders,
a global hero, or an infamous villain, when thing's for sure,

(27:11):
Jengis Cohn changed history. So what happened to him? Well,
that's the thing nobody really knows except for those people
that got, according to legend, assassinated immediately after they buried him.
So hardcore. So even today, right now, the search continues
officially outside of you know, maybe the secret keepers. Maybe

(27:35):
there is a group of small group of secret keepers,
and we'll learn about that right after a quick word
from our sponsor. Here's where it gets crazy. According to
oral folklore and legend, the empire went to great links
to erase the location and the cons tomb from the world.

(27:56):
As you mentioned, the funeral escort killed people they countered
on the way to and from the site, which is
a little complicated because the people who knew the way
there got killed when they were there. And then the
other people who killed the slaves and the soldiers who
killed the slaves. Uh, they probably never saw the two,

(28:16):
at least according to the story. So again, well, well,
well before this in b C, we had Greek cultures
that were venerating their dead with these ostentatious monuments that
were there for everyone to worship and see, totally different
style of burial. Here, they're killing their countrymen to keep

(28:38):
them from spreading the word of where this leader would
have been buried and for what reason. We'll we'll get
to that. Yeah. Then for another cultural reference, killing people
who construct a tomb of a leader is unfortunately not uncommon.
There have been other cases in ancient cultures where slaves
were killed not to keep a secret, but as a

(29:00):
sacrifice to serve the leader in the afterlife. I was
gonna ask, do you think they were like surprised or
are they going into this knowing they probably weren't going
to come back? That part has lost to history and
stuff too. It's you know, it's easy for us to say, well,
I wouldn't do that if I knew what was going
to happen, you know, with the benefit of looking back
from But the fact of the matter is we don't

(29:21):
have documentation that tells us anything about the understanding or
the motivation of the slaves or the soldiers, because there's
very little documentation about Cohn at all. Right, there's the
Secret History of the Mongols, which is often considered not
a hundred percent accurate, and it leaves a lot of

(29:42):
things out. But it's you know, you've this far back
in history. There's a constant search for sources, Right, you
gotta put it together based on artifacts and just kind
of like finding stuff and putting the pieces together and
saying this is probably how it went down. Yeah, and
based on what the people who, what kind of frame
of reference or cultural perspective the earlier investigators were coming from,

(30:05):
Like we're still we got to be clear. This stuff
we're talking about here is the realm of legend. The
tomb was allegedly hidden, and folklore gives us conflicting methods
of camouflage, and one story an entire river was diverted
over the CON's grave so that no one could find it. Ever,
in another version, they had horses trample across the ground

(30:28):
and then they planted trees on the site so that
you couldn't find any clear traces of somebody digging. And
then another story says that perma frost itself erased all
traces of the site. Uh, there's another guy. In sixteen
sixty two, a work called the Ordini top Chi that

(30:50):
argues Genghis Khan's coffin was empty when it arrived to Mongolia.
It's very it's a it's a conspiracy theory that has
echoes in the mom Earn day. Uh. And then there's
another atland that from six o four that says only
Genghis Khan's shirt tent and his boots were buried. Shirt

(31:13):
shoes tent no service in the afterlife. Yeah, but essentially
after he died, people began searching for this too. One
legend said that was found as soon as thirty years later.
This is the weirdest one I found was that was
found thirty years later because a camel was buried with
the con a young camel, and that the camel's mother

(31:37):
found the grave and started weeping over the death of
its child. It sounds like a fairy tale. It sounds
very Pixar Andy Disney movie esque. Probably not true, but
it is possible that the burial site was somewhere around
wild camel routes, and then the tears seeped into the
soil and the camel was resurrected by the power of love.

(31:59):
As long as that wilder and watching nearby clap their hands.
That's probably not true, but uh, we do have some
prove that it is not true. Prove that I'm saying
the camel thing is so real. Yeah, I hope it is, man,
I hope you're right, I hope it is. I would

(32:20):
love to hang out deep in Disney movies. Now, that's
gotta be real. What are the good Disney movies? Coco?
Coco is pretty good, which one my son calls it
The Boy with the Bones? Yeah, oh I remember that. Yeah,
it's a solid What do you see Incredibles too? Yet,
there's a short before it that will gut you, my friend.
It's called Bow. It's about a dumpling. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, beautiful,

(32:43):
it's beautiful. So the thing about Disney films and Pixar
films as well, is that, oh I just realized, pretty
soon every film is going to be a Disney film.
They're buying, they're buying it all they might buy us
they already please buy as Disney. Please, but I will.
I will not say no to tickets or a mascot costume,

(33:05):
that's for sure. But the the thing about these films,
these Disney films, is that they are proven historical resources.
We can look at them, we can see what happened
in them. It's not just oral folklore. And we have
some documentation from this time. Oddly enough, via Marco Polo.

(33:26):
He wrote about his travels and he wrote about what
he saw as the attitudes of Mongolian people themselves, uh,
and the speculation over the side of the grave. According
to him, people Mongolia did not know where the tomb
was as early as the late thirteenth centuries, so even
just a few decades after the death, they were saying,
which we don't know where he is. And he was like, Marco, oh,

(33:56):
we are po lowering the bar on the puns today.
Marco did have a guest, though, and in the Travels
of Marco Polo, he writes that it has been an
invariable custom that all the grand cons and chiefs of
the race of jenis Con should be carried for an
internment to a certain lofty mountain named Alte and in

(34:19):
whatever place they may happen to die, although it should
be at the distance of a hundred days journey, they
are nevertheless conveyed thither. Oh, Marco Polo, what a And
I do believe the illustrious Cohn may have dad from
an arrow to the knee. That's right, I like the

(34:40):
jewel at this guy sip you know also met that
that accident totally, I mean convinced you're about to go. Yeah,
I only do one voice so it's great. But the
precision Matt it's doing it drips like butter. It's the
true voice of history, Matt Julip Frederick taking a big

(35:02):
old journey across Mongolian understand over the mountain old time.
Oh man, I want to make a video game and
just have you narrate all the characters. I'm down with that, Hey,
developers out there, please let me voice your game and battle.
Ben'll do it, and Nol do it, and Paul do it. No,
it'll just be you, and it'll just be a game
full of old men countering around the Mongolian waste, including

(35:24):
the love interests. Yes, it it'll be the West World game.
And I'll just play the old guy. Okay, okay, Now
everybody knows there's an old person in a TV show.
Just let me play Delos's grandfather who now, uh yeah,
but people are probably programmed where they haven't gotten to

(35:47):
the level of consciousness that they can't hear that spoiler.
You guys are killing me. So in seven rumors surfaced
that the Soviet government had found and stolen a banner
from this Buddhist monastery, this remote Buddhist monastery, and the
banner had clues leading you to the grave site. Nothing

(36:08):
came of that. Who let those guys have that? No
one they took it. They probably started the rumor themselves.
They're a little braggadocious over there in the Soviet Union.
And I'm gonna be honest, it might be seven when
we did the Great Game podcast about Shambalah. This is
probably associated with that. The searches continued and they had

(36:30):
that same pattern that we see in so many of
these sorts of investigations, are all these tantalizing clues. Somebody
finds a button, they find a gold coin, they find
like an ancient bow, but they find no concrete proof
leading to the grave. There's a very sad story here.
An amateur archaeologist named Maury Kravitz dedicated decades of his

(36:54):
life to searching for this tomb, and he was basing
a lot of his research and his excavations, which were
quite expensive, on the writings of a fifteenth century French jesuit.
He was convinced, based on this guy's records, that the
site would be near the cons quote favorite place the

(37:16):
confluence CEO in f l U E n c E
of the Curlin and quote Bruccie rivers with a place
named Burkon called Doon over his right shoulder. Kravitz couldn't
find a river named Brucie, which most people would think
to mean that he's just confused the name or that

(37:37):
it doesn't exist. Bruccie man, And isn't the Caldoon the
the the Birken Caldoon the mountain in question right from
reaching his hands up to the sky God, so everybody
believes that Scott to be somehow related to this mountain.
But he did find something called a toponym, uh Barroon

(38:01):
Brooch or West Brooch. And a toponym is a place
name that is derived from a topographical feature. Was so
cool that it's really cool. And that's a new one
for me. It's t O P O N y M
and yeah uh. And this area was about a hundred

(38:22):
kilometers east of Birkeland called Dunes. Not that far. Cravitz
died without ever finishing or failing his search for the
two makes you never quit, but yeah, yeah, exactly, And
it makes you think about all those people who have
spent their life looking for something like the Holy Grail,
like putting all of their life's work into something like

(38:43):
that or what what are what are some of these
other legendary things, Yeah, things that don't want to be found.
But thankfully, Morey's young grandson, Lenny, went on to become
an incredible rock star, a rock Yeah, sports leather pants
like no one's ever done in the history of had

(39:05):
wonderful children, And if you listen to most of his albums,
you'll see that the lyrics are are actually about the
search for the tomb of genghisk the whole thing that
you're gonna go my way, that's about Genghis Khan. Yea,
none of this is true. This is true. The one

(39:28):
fault is he wrote it about Genghis Khan rather than
Jengis Khan. And that's what's kind of failed pronunciations. It's
better when we catch ourselves though, Isn't it agreed? This
is lean into it. There are other possible locations. Marco
Polo has that admittedly vague but amazingly performed by Matt

(39:51):
mentioned of Altai. Other theories include something from Luan dynasty,
which the one dynasty is mongoled sended. You know, we're
talking earlier about ruling populations that were thought to have
assimilated to egregiously these This is one example. In the
Yuan dynasty believe that all Mongol Kans were buried in

(40:14):
the area of Genghis Khan's tomb, a site known as
qin Yan Valley. But there's no in all their records
talking about this valley. There's no specific mention of where
that tomb is. They just talk around it as if
they know where it is, so like the valley beyond. Yeah,
but they was it exclusive to to Jengis him being

(40:36):
the big the big Kahuna that they would hide his
tomb or would would they like would they have hit
all of their burials like a valley of the cons Yeah,
there's well. Again, the tradition is not to mark them.
Yea where you were born, to write were like where
you originate. There's another bit of folklore that says he's
buried at the peak of or on a peak rather

(40:57):
in the Kenti mountains, and that's Burkehon call doon Uh.
He had hidden from enemies on that mountain as a
young man. That's where he made that spiritual pledge right
to return there and death. So for centuries it seemed
like this was going to be a hopeless fools. Errand
it's a huge country. It's not very populated. It's almost

(41:21):
as if the Hue humans sprinkled there are just to
give us a sense of scale about how vast and
empty it is. It's a very unforgiving terrain. It's a
very unforgiving terrain. But there was there, there was something
that seemed set to change the expedition's game that arrived
very recently, and that is the emergence of cutting edge technology,

(41:47):
which will dive into after a word from our sponsors,
and we're back and entered Dr Albert Lynn. He is
the let's say, he's the most well known example of
somebody who's using technology in the hunt for this lost

(42:07):
tumb And you you're a huge fan of this guy, right, man,
I am. I've only I've only spent let's say it's
probably a forty eight minutes with him roughly that I've
spent with him on screen hanging out. No, no, no, no.
I I love the work that he's doing and it
seems very admirable. And going back to his roots, backstory

(42:28):
about led him to this ultimate journey using grad school
and he went back to Mongolia, bought a horse and
ended up like staying with these nomadic people and um
kind of hearing about this potential for a hidden sight
that we're talking about and it intrigued him a lot, obviously. Well,

(42:49):
it's it's really awesome. It's something we've discussed on this
show a lot before, using lidar and other new technologies
to be able to find hidden tombs, hidden archaeology that
exists there in the world. And he's actually doing it,
and he convinced in this case National Geographic to go
out and you know, fund his research and fund his journeys.
Pretty awesome. Yeah. Lightar is stands for light detection and ranging.

(43:15):
It's a remote sensing method. You've probably heard when we
talked about law civilizations how this technology has been used.
And luckily for Lynn and Code, this has progressed by
leaps and bounds. Nor weren't you mentioning that drone that
used light ar. Yeah, he's got a really like early.
When I say early, I think this is in what came. Yeah,

(43:38):
he started his search I think started in O eight. Yeah,
so you know at that time, drone technology was it's
like the military thing we always talk about where it's um,
they hold back stuff or they only have like the
good stuff for the big boys in the military, and
then it eventually trickles down to what I like to
call pro sumer technology, where it's going to be quite
expensive to get a good one, and they had one.

(44:01):
They had. I'm not sure exactly, Matt. You may have
mentioned what the model might have been of the strone. Oh, No,
I don't know the actual It was definitely a really
tight drone equipped with some kind of light ar technology
that they could use to do topographical like aerial maps.
I'm pretty sure Jonathan, our own Jonathan Strickland went to
see yes that your were a version of ce S

(44:21):
at the time, and uh talked about those first prosumer drones. Yeah,
I think you were correct. They also used satellite imagery.
They had some assistance from some satellite companies, and with
this and the lighter, which they describe as non invasive
ground based imaging, they were able to identify and study

(44:45):
dozens and dozens of archaeological sites, including some ancient burial mounds,
none of which so far have turned out to be
the cons We should point out to that it's a
big deal, big important part of this as that the
Mongolian government they won't let anybody dig. There's no there's
no dig policy. So this was his solution to, like,

(45:06):
let's do a virtual dig. Yeah, and they also so
very quickly they run into this problem. We're gonna let's
talk a little in depth about this because this is
the most well known recent search and the one that
has the highest probability of success. Honestly, he did it
very smartly. Yeah. So he also crowdsourced. Their team said, look,
we're getting way too many images. We're getting way too

(45:27):
much stuff to go through. If you are interested in this,
you do not have to be PhD level archaeologist. We
want to use you as what Dr Lynn called a
human computation network. So they got thousands of quote citizen archaeologists,
that's what they called them, to review more than eighty

(45:48):
five thousand images from this that they had gotten through
this company called Digital Globe, that's their satellite partner. And
these were images of that forbidden zone that's the name
of it. Yeah. Uh, that's where you cannot dig. And
parts of that area used to be entirely restricted to

(46:08):
royal families among colia. So it's a big deal for
people to even be able to go out there, and
he published a paper about this called Combining go O
I one Satellite Remote Sensing u a V Aerial Imaging
and Geophysical Surveys and Anomaly Detection applied to Archaeology. Sexy.

(46:28):
It's the kicker, right, is these these anomalies because when
you look at the aerial footage, there's stuff down there
that's clearly man made. He says, if it's like squared
off looking, it's these little nipple looking things, little bounds
kind of that's quote unquote like odd. But he said
the sheer amount of data was just too too, too,

(46:49):
too much for a team of of however many he
had access to to mess with and just to mind
through it all. Hence the crowdsourcing. So he basically got
a bunch of people to do a bunch of grunt
work for him for free. Well, the images were roughly
one pixel to one meter. That's amazing, So like you're
literally looking at all of the land space. That's a
lot of computer enhance. Yeah, but then what did the

(47:12):
aggregate look like when all the results were in all
these clicks, all these people taken on these deals, what
do they get back that made it interesting? They are
a distinct lack of a two of Genghis cons tom.
But they but they saw clusters of things kind of pinpoint,
so they were able to yeah, map out civilizations places

(47:33):
where it may be more likely for the tomb to
be located, especially if the folks from Nuan dynasty were
correct and that there was some sort of knowledge of
the tombs location and that the cons were secretly buried.
There was a thing about it being betwixt two rivers
or something, and go back to and the proximity to

(47:54):
the mountain of course, right, that's right. I think they
found what he redescribed as an iron age tomb um.
But it has just been picked clean by grave robbers,
he said, looking for barrow heads or something. Yeah, but
you're right, Bend. They you know, all this cool tech
didn't amount to a whole Hillo Hillo con one other

(48:15):
Hillican of one of the other really cool things they
had where the lidar actually back in backpack style or something.
So they're walking around across these areas that have been
you know, clustered together with a bunch of different people
seeing and they're walking just with a lighter on their back.
I want to do that. I want that for you,

(48:35):
I feel like you've earned that. That's kind of rolling
cart version of it too. And I saw in the
video that I was look confused about what it was.
But they definitely had a lot of tech and that
was a big part of the of the of the
show was how much gear they had, you know. And
we can't downplay what they found because they found a
lot of amazing, astonishing things. They just found those as

(48:56):
a result of searching for the thing that they have
yet to find, and that's because there are and this
this is maybe the strangest part of today's story. There
are some massive problems with the search. Nold you and
I like we briefly mentioned the terrain his first off
spoiler alert. Mongolia is the definition of remote. Most of

(49:16):
the country outside of the capital Lambatore does not have roads,
rooted cities. There's still many communities living in the neeumatic
tradition on the steps. And then just for comparison, I
found this fascinating. This really set it in stone in

(49:37):
my mind. Mongolia is more than seven times the size
of Great Britain and it has about two percent the
amount of roads that Great Britain has. It's so funny
that recently took a flight over the Great Salt Flats
in Salt Lake City, and that was the closest kind
of terrain that I could kind of compare to this.

(49:59):
It's not desert. It it's very like you look down,
it's like there's nobody down there. Yeah, there are no roads,
and it's like I felt like I was flying over
the moon and it was just beautiful. But it's also
like very alien. I have to have a feeling there's
a similar quality over over there in Mongolia. There was
one yeah, when I drove through the salt flats on

(50:19):
me completely non sketchy thing, and it was one of
the few times in my life I thought, Man, if
the car breaks down, that's it. It's over for me.
They make a good point to in the documentary how
they take older trucks and stuff because they're easier to
fix out in the field, and there would be like,

(50:40):
now you're not going to find a Volkswagen shop, you know.
And even with those trucks that have like four by
four capability and stuff, they have to send some people
on horseback different sites, right stuff. So I always see
what you're saying, because they couldn't get right up onto
it with the vehicle. They had to like send out parties. Yeah,
it's totally true. What we need to do is have

(51:01):
teams that go in behind the search, teams that can
set up supply lines. Oh yeah, there we go, right.
I think that's how we conquered this whole thing. So
that was the smartest little detail of CON's brigade that
that's Gone'm like, wow, that is They really had to
figure it out. There's also some speculation that climate change
played a role in the expansion of the empire because

(51:24):
they did they were running out of resources agriculturally to
feed people. Sure, and I always I hadn't considered that,
and maybe that played a role in the later environmental
laws that he instituted. There was another video that Auto
played after the documentary were talking about. It was an
Australian fellow who tried to follow the path that the
Mongols would have taken, and he kept bringing another problem

(51:47):
where there wasn't enough grass for the horses to graze on,
so that the horse was would get skinny over time.
And you could picture that happening for real, like back
in the day. If it's like the resources aren't there,
you can't feed your horses. You can't feed your horses,
you can't feel only going on with this nomadic lifestyle.
The only way is forward to find the what they

(52:09):
call him in song, advice, some fire, exceason, game of Thrones,
the sheep people, the lambsmen people. And here here's the strangest,
most disturbing part. One of the reasons, possibly one of
the reasons that the tomb is yet to be found
despite all this blood, sweat, tears and amazing technology applied

(52:31):
to the question, is that some people, many people, do
not want it to be found, especially native Mongolians. They
don't want the tune to be disturbed. This is often described,
at least here in the West, in terms of a curse.
They'll say that Moriy Kravitz died because he got too
close was cursed. And this idea is that disturbing or

(52:53):
even discovering the grave of the con will set in
motion this catastrophic series of events, triggering something like World
War three. However, what's interesting here as well is that
many Mongolians who reject the spiritual concerns and say, ah,
the idea of a curse is just a bunch of Gobbledegook.
They still don't want the tomb discovered. In their opinion

(53:13):
for people who would consider themselves skeptical, but I want
this to remain unknown. Their opinion is that if it
was the CON's wish, it was jengis CON's wish that
his body not be found, then his wishes should be respected.
This mixture of fear and respect is codified the modern day.
The mountains that often come up as candidates in the

(53:34):
search for the tomb are still considered sacred. Uh. There
were recent reports of a Mongolian researcher and a journalist
who I believe was British who were not still not
allowed the modern day to climb Burkhan klled Doon because
they were women. Yeah, and it's still now it used

(53:55):
to be. The area that used to be known as
the I correg or Great Taboo is not now called
the Contental strictly protected area. It's a World Heritage Site
and because of this designation, it's been off limits to
most researchers, which strictly protected area. Yeah, how Lynn get

(54:16):
up in there? Though National Geographics got some pool. He
tells an interesting story about how near the end of
their project or at some point after they've been there
for a while, he was approached by their representatives of
the local shaman, and there's this great story. It's clearly
the central you know, kicker of his ted talk moment

(54:37):
where he shaking and why are you here? Why are
you here? And who are you and asked them all
these very existential questions. But ultimately, isn't like angry, isn't
like get out, isn't like don't do anything, because at
the same at the end of the day, they're not
going to dig it up. They're just like trying to
get some answers. And you know, but my big question
to you guys is who cares? Why? What? What's what?

(55:00):
What's what's there to find? Why don't need to see
a body? Why don't need to see these remnants? Because
it could create a watershed moment in archaeology. First off,
it would it would clarify the questions about the death right.
It would it would also from the perspective of any
Mongolian parties who want the tomb to be discovered, it

(55:23):
would be a massive cultural boon. You know, we would
also probably find a lot of stuff that's buried with
him that would answer questions about engineering, questions about human
technology at the time that that we wouldn't know ordinarily.
But I think we don't have that from other sources, right,

(55:45):
I think the yeah to continue. I think that the
primary appeal for many people who are not Mongolian is
the the proving or disproving of various myths. This is
a enough for a lot of it to be essentially
legend and then also a bit of romanticization. I don't

(56:06):
think we can escape that. I think there's there's clearly
a bit of a rosy picture people paint. But I
have a question for you guys, which is what about
this this curse thing? It doesn't come out a whole cloth.
I mean, we've seen other historical leaders be have their
tombs described as cursed. Yeah, it's true. This guy named

(56:28):
George Edwards Stan Hope Molino Herbert a k a. The
Earl of Carnavon, was quite a fancy man who fancied
himself an amateur egyptologist who was Carnavon is real? Is
that real? Yeah? That's he was the Earl of car
carr carnar Carnarvon, Carnarvon, let's call it. I don't like it. Yeah,

(56:51):
come at me, Brits. Um. But yeah, he he um.
He apparently actually grew up in a High Claire Castle,
which is the estate where they filmed Downton Abbey. So
very fancy boy, he sure does. But he also really
was into Egyptology and single handedly, um using wielding his
influence and his obscene wealth, um, paid for an expedition

(57:15):
to open the tomb of the boy King King Tuton
comment looks like brain, okay, yes, so what what happened? Well,
he hired this young, upstart archaeologist, kind of a Brendan
Fraser type prime not modern day Brendan kind of sad.

(57:36):
Howard Carter was this man's name. They had met through
a guy named Gaston Maspero who was the director general
of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. And yeah, they opened
up this tomb and they found all kinds of crazy stuff.
And very shortly after visiting Thebes to visit the site
of the spoils of his investment, We're gonna call him Carnarvon,

(58:00):
as as is befitting his station. He he died in
short order after getting get this bit by a mosquito
whoa so you get like the malaria or some advirus,
some real bad And I'm not I'm not going to
as far. I'm not saying that didn't know was a
common But man, what a kick in the pants, yeah,
or a bite in the leg. Yeah, And that's its

(58:22):
own you know, that's almost its own episode. The curse
of King tut right, we do we already do that.
I know we've done a video for sure. It all blurs.
But search or search for it, see if you can
find and let us know before there's one other example
of a curse that, oddly enough is related to Mongols
stuff as well, and that is Team or or often

(58:45):
called tamer Lane in the West. Uh, this fear of
grave consequences, get it, Get in that grave. Yep, great consequences.
Let's sit in it. Everybody's sitting in it. And I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. This this this fear echoes concerns that regard
the discovery of the legendary grave of Tamerlane or Timore.

(59:09):
In n one, Soviet archaeologists discovered the grave of this guy's,
a fourteenth century Turkic Mongolian king in some arcan that
a location called emir cert of fact. Okay, it's just
we cut it in the original edit, but at first
I mispronounced as gury Mur. I honestly don't know if
you did mispronounce it. It's unclear. But it's the opportunity

(59:30):
to just make a Swedish chef joke. Yeah it was.
That's fine, That's it's done. You guys gotta go for it.
You already did it. Go ahead and try it. If
you're listening to everybody, everybody you're you're jogging past right now,
we'll just think you're a lot of fun. Yes, they'll
say it together, ready, three, two one, Yeah, it's it's

(59:53):
the location in Samarcan where they found the tomb, and
it bore a warning allegedly of a terrible fate that
would befall any and all who disturbed the dead king's slumber.
One worse than me will rise. Immediately afterward, according to
the story, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, launching World
War two's Eastern Front, so two days after the tomb

(01:00:16):
was opened, on the night of June twenty, Nazi Germany
declared war invaded the USSR. A lot of people linked
it with the opening of that tomb, and the expedition
was immediately wound up. The remains of the guy were
sent for study in Moscow. Coincidence, right, especially when consider
World War two was already in full swing. People who

(01:00:37):
believe in that curse think there's an additional fact. They
say the turning point of the war occurred at the
Battle of Stalingrad and the Soviets one exactly a month
after Stalin ordered the government to return Timore's remains to
Samarkand and bury him with full honors. WHOA I'm gonna say,
I think it's a coincidence. I think you don't need

(01:00:58):
a supernatural uh curse to be decent enough to not
desecrate a grave. Also are egyptologist, amateur egyptologist Fancy Boy
was known to have a bit poor health. And you know,
if you're if you're if you're not healthy, something like
a bloodborne illness from a mosquito, who might take you
out a little quicker. You're talking about Carner Hern Lord Carnivore.

(01:01:23):
But actually Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the ones
who spread the idea of this curse with as pertained
to so to Doyle a kind of fool of those people.
He but he was a bit of a fabulous right,
a fictionist. Yeah, it is a great tale, though, is
I mean, look, if I ever am fortunate enough to die,

(01:01:45):
then I am obviously going to have some sort of
curse inscribed, Like that's what you want, right, Like Shakespeare
does he have? Yeah, good friend for jesus sake, forbear
to dig the dust and close it here. Blessed be
he man that spares these stones, and cursed be he
that moves my bones? And did you notice it rhymes? Yeah?

(01:02:09):
I used to get at that. He kind of invented rhyming.
Didn't name Shakespeare. Francis Bacon is so just awesome. So yeah,
so curses are common, Um, I I don't know. This
is as we end today's episode. First, we want to
thank you for hanging out with us, and we want
to ask you do you think this tomb should be

(01:02:29):
disturbed or found, especially if the people who are descended
from this empire don't want it to be found. I
am of the mind definitely not leavall enough alone. Yeah,
you know, don't disturb the ground if you're not invited,
you know what I mean. And that's sort of the
point of a curse, right, It's like, don't mess with
my stuff, are you gonna get cursed? But also a

(01:02:52):
lot of this depiction of it as a curse. I
feel like it comes from the West, Like I couldn't
find anythinging in Mongolian culture that said this tomb is
specifically cursed. I just found it being the wishes of
the man interred. They're sort of like the the old

(01:03:14):
Kennedy curse. We sort of imposed this notion of a
cur of a curse on a series of unfortunate events
that sounds like a Netflix show children children's popular series
of children's books. So I don't know about that. We're suppressiot. Uh.
This episode, by the way, let's just say we recorded
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