Episode 142 | He’s Built His Retirement Hut

This week, Angie explores the adventures of Pyotr Kozlov, a traveler from Russia/Soviet Union who explored large portions of Asia and was falsely reported to have found the tomb of Genghis Khan. Kozlov led several expeditions uncovering several royal burials and was surprisingly appreciated by the countries in which he worked. This episode pairs well with: Rear Admiral Robert Byrd Mary Kingsley  

Episode Transcript

(00:09):
Hi, and welcome to the Unhinged History Podcast,the podcast where two compulsive nut jobs are
going to binge spooky-ish stories, hauntings,and the whole nine during this month and then
regurgitate those stories upon the ear holes ofthe friend that has chosen to put their headphones

(00:30):
on. I'm host one, I'm Teresa, and that. I'm Angie,and in case you're curious, we both have our ear
holes plugged with our headphones. It's betterthis way. I'm not sure if I word that right. I'm

(00:50):
thinking about it. I legit don't know how to startmy story. So do care if I just start talking. Sure.
Okay, great. I am going to tell you a little bitabout Genghis Khan, and then I'm going to tell you
about a man named Peter Kostlov that they gotogether, I promise. I'm going to say Genghis

(01:11):
Khan. I'm aware of. Second name, not so much. Not somuch. Okay. So my sources are a New York Times
article from October 30th of 1927. Do you care tohear the title of this article because this is what
got me? I'm going to say yes because I'm all aboutthem sources. Tomb of Genghis Khan found in Dobie

(01:34):
Desert. Lama's guarded the secret for 700 years.Two of what found? Tomb of Genghis Khan. Oh, Tomb. I
heard two. Two of Genghis Khan. That's actuallythere. Okay. Then there is a following New York
Times article from November 12th of 1927. Kostlovexplains Gobi Desert Tomb. Russian explorer

(01:56):
believes burial mound older than that of GenghisKhan. I'm not going to read the rest of what the
title of that is because it will ruin my story.There is a great article in the true Republican,
which is the Illinois-based newspaper fromNovember of 1924, which I thought was super fun.

(02:20):
The article is titled Garden of Eden Gives Up Bonesof New Species. Oh. Yeah. It's a pretty fun
article. There is a very small and very sad articleon Wikipedia on Peter Kostlov, which was
devastating because there's almost nothingwritten in English about him. So I did some very

(02:45):
deep digging to learn anything that I possiblycould. That said, there is a translated to English
from Russians. It's called the Geographer'sBibliological Studies. It's like a quarterly
column that comes out. Written by AlexanderAndreevi and Tatiana Yusepov. And it's about

(03:07):
Peter Kostlov. There is a BBC article fromFebruary of 22, why Genghis Khan's tomb can't be
found. And I just have to share this one with youbecause it's so dumb. The Silver Coffin of Genghis
Khan, Haunted Ohio Books. I don't know whyIllinois and Ohio are involved in my story at all.

(03:29):
There you have it. And a live science article aboutwhat we think we know about Genghis Khan's death
from also of 22. So all that said, I was researchingsomething very different a couple of months ago
when I saw that first 1927 article, Tomb of GenghisKhan Found in Gobi Desert. So I needed to look into

(03:52):
it a little bit deeper. Now the original headlinethat led me to that was claiming that the Khan's
tomb had been found recently, like in the last sixmonths. And it was from one of those just like rage
bait trash websites. So I didn't even botherclicking it. I literally just like googled, hey,
like what's going on. And that's where I saw this1927 article. And if only for my love of the Genghis

(04:19):
Khan story did I believe that no one's ever going tofind his tomb. So this is obviously above Ghis
article anyways. But that's how I got to this NewYork Times article and it's been so much fun ever
since. And let me just say papers written in the 20swere so much more fun and creative than they are
today. Like we need to go back to that kind ofwriting. We're really missing out on that. Go on.

(04:43):
With all that said, I'm going to give you arefresher on Genghis Khan. As for anybody that
doesn't know, it's a fun thing to talk about. Tostart, I'm going to give you a snippet from the New
York Times article. It reads, quote, the tomb ofGenghis Khan, the great Mongolian conqueror who

(05:04):
lived from 1162 to 1227 AD has been discovered byProfessor Peter Klosbluff, a Russian
archaeologist near the ruins of the dead city ofKarakoto in the Gobi Desert, according to the
Sunday Express. Professor Klosbluff, who hasbeen exploring Central Asia since 1883, has thus
solved Asia's greatest archaeological mystery.The Express says, the great Khan's bones,

(05:29):
Professor Klosbluff reports, lie in a silvercoffin which rests upon the 78 crowns of princes
and Khans whom he conquered. That's a visual,right? So now that that's firmly affixed in your
brain, Timujin, later known as Genghis Khan, wasborn around 1162, give or take. We don't have the

(05:55):
exact date. What we know about his early life comesfrom a book that I did not include the name of at the
top of my sources. I don't know why, but it comesfrom the secret history of Mongols. Now this is the
oldest known work of Mongolian history andliterature. It's written shortly after his
death. So just take everything about his earlylife with a grain of salt because we don't have a

(06:21):
firsthand account. What we have is what they knew,right? So some stories could be embellished, some
stories could be spot on, but we're going with thisis where his history comes from. This is what we
know, right? Okay. Okay. So, back to the top of mynotes. Now legend says he, well, okay, so he's born

(06:45):
on the border between modern day Mongolia andSiberia. Legend says he's born clutching a blood
clot in his hand. And if that doesn't set the stagefor the rest of his life, I don't know what would.
That's so metal. Right? Now, his youth is not aneasy one. His mother is a stolen woman who is forced
into marriage, right? Because this is a time and aplace where we're dealing with dozens of these

(07:10):
nomadic tribes who are constantly fighting, notonly with each other, but like infighting and
they're also stealing everything from eachother, right? So that said, you can sort of imagine
how this plays out for women and children that arejust trying to live their lives, right? Like,
things aren't great for them. To say that his lifeand that the life of his mother was a violent one is

(07:36):
an absolute understatement. Before he's even 10,his father is poisoned by an enemy clan and dies. At
this point, Timogen's mother and at least sixsiblings and him are basically deserted by their
own clan because feeding that many extra people ishard. So their main source of like, sustenance and

(07:56):
protection came from his father, right? And oncehe's dead, the clan outs them. Like your toast. But
don't worry, Timogen steps up and killed his olderhalf-brother because he's not doing a great job
leading their tiny clan either. And he's only 10.Now he becomes the new leader of their very poor,

(08:17):
very destitute house that they are currentlyoperating within, right? He gets captured by the
former clan and they enslave him. We're looking atour preteens. He escapes. At some point after he
escapes, he meets and marries a girl called Bortand they have at least four sons and an unknown

(08:40):
number of daughters. This checks, right? OK, nowat one point his wife Bort, she gets kidnapped and
he is like absolutely not. He sets out to rescueher. And history.com says that this is around the
time he begins making these alliances as well asbuilding this reputation as this like warlord

(09:02):
warrior. Not only that, but he is also attractingthis ever increasing number of followers. Like he
is not losing. He is winning and people want to be onhis side. So he starts gaining this good amount of
power and this is great following. And he goesagainst like the customs and the nepotism of his

(09:22):
time and he puts competent allies and keyleadership in key leadership positions instead
of relatives. Like just because you're my fatherin law doesn't mean you're actually good at this
job. What a concept. I know wild, right? Go finddays. He can do it. So he would also execute the

(09:43):
leaders of enemy tribes, but at the same time oftheir execution, he is incorporating the clans
remaining members into his own. So. Like Merger'san acquisition. Yeah, like your boss sucks. Come
work for me. Right. Okay. So as far as his rules ofwar go, he would not allow any looting until the

(10:04):
battle was a complete victory. He organizes hiswarriors into groups of 10 regardless of whether
or not they're kin, which is a huge thing. And Ipersonally think those are solid move on their
part because if you're forcing them to have to worktogether, eventually they're going to work
together. And now you're just building strengthin numbers. By the year 1205, he's conquered all of

(10:25):
his power rivals and begins establishing a nationcomparable in size to modern day Mongolia. He's
got representatives in every territory. And ittakes about a year to do all of this organizing. And
right around this time is point that he changes hisname to Chinkas con or as we in the West say gang is

(10:48):
con, which basically means universal ruler,which is kind of cool. Like I didn't know that until
recently. I mean, if you could call yourselfanything. Right. Yeah. Now, once he's united all
of his people, he rules over at least a millionpeople and a minimum of nine million square miles.
Some articles suggest up to 12 million at hisheight. Either way, it's a huge chunk of space.

(11:15):
He's got followers of his own animus faithChristians, Muslims and Buddhists. And one of the
things that I've read before, but didn't includein my notes is that within his camp, there was
religious freedom. Like it wasn't, you didn'thave to follow what he followed, which is
interesting when you think about like the factthat he's a conqueror, but that works. Right.

(11:37):
Right. So now he goes on, he does a bunch of otherconquering, including making his way all the way
to Germany. Did you know that? I think I did. I thinkI did at some point pull up a map. Now, if you said,
Theresa, how far did he get? Would I say Germany?No, but if you say, did you know that? I'd be like,
yeah. Yeah. It's me. I knew that. Like I've readthings and watched things and listened to things

(12:00):
on con, like for my whole life, but to hear it again,I was like, Germany, that seems so far away from
where he started at one point. His empire spansfrom the sea of Japan to the Caspian sea in the West.
So now for the sake of time, I'm going to skipstraight to his death because this is really where

(12:20):
the story that I want to tell you takes place. Well,actually it takes place 700 years later. It's 1227
and the con in his army are outwarring andconquering. He gets thrown from his horse and he
suffers these internal injuries that never heal.And he dies from these injuries on August 18th,
1227. Or maybe he takes an arrow and it getsinfected. Or maybe according to live science, he

(12:45):
gets the plague. These are the most acceptedstories of his death. But another one is suggested
that he was castrated by a princess of the Tangledpeople and kind of leads out and dies. Oh. Yeah. I
mean, like either way, it's a gnarly death.Whether he suffers internal injuries, he gets the

(13:06):
arrow, he gets the plague, whatever the case maybe. He, he, he leaves an early life. He lives an
early death. Now upon his death, his request, likeas he's dying, is to be buried in secret. He wants no
one knowing of his final resting place. His men aregrieving, but they honor his wishes. They carry
him home in secret and kill anyone they meet alongthe route. Dang. Like you're, you're just out

(13:32):
picking flowers. You're toast. Now the story goesthat when the great Khan is finally put to rest in
his tomb, his soldiers ride a thousand horses overit to destroy any remaining evidence of the once
great Lord of War. And then supposedly a river isdiverted to flow over the burial site again to
ensure no one ever finds it. Okay. So fast forward,like 700 years. People have been looking for his

(14:01):
tomb this whole time. But one of the big thingsthat's working against literally every explorer
is that his own people, like even modern dayMongolians today, want to honor his wishes. So
they do everything in their power to ensure you'renot going to find his tomb. Whether or not they know

(14:23):
where it's at is irrelevant. Right. Like they arehonoring his wishes. So good luck. I guess. So this
gentleman called Peter Kusmich Kulfloss. He'sborn on October 3rd, 1863 in Russia in a town that
would be far more respectable if I didn't try topronounce it, but I will if you'll like. I mean,

(14:45):
considering what I, what I did in the last episodewith the Italian, I, and I realized I should have
just continued to skip over on skip over. Okay.Great. Cause I just feel so much more respectable,
not even trying. Um, and like I said, mentionedearlier, his sources on his life are almost

(15:07):
nothing in English. I watched a documentary lastnight that was in Russian just to try and figure
some stuff out. I know nothing in Russian. But didyou figure out Russian to be able to actually
understand? No, I read the translated captions atthe bottom and they were minuscule and very

(15:27):
roughly translated. And I, so I was able to learnsome things, but not, I feel like there's a lot more
that we could learn, but there's just nothing inthe West about this guy other than these two
articles that I found. So all that to say, what I doknow is that his parents basically plan a military
life for him, but that's not his jam. He joins theexpedition of his mentor, who, of a man who goes on

(15:54):
to be his mentor called Nicolai Reveleschi intoAsia. Now once his mentor, so his mentor teaches
him everything about the trade. He teaches him howto be explorer. He teaches him how to be an
archaeologist. He teaches him the science ofsurveying and like all of the things you need to

(16:14):
know to be good at what they're doing. He teacheshim all of it. And then he dies. So our guy close
love, he continues traveling with the othersuccessors of this mentor, a fellow named
Petstolf and Robovovsky by 1895. Robovovsky issick and he's ailing. So close love takes like

(16:36):
general command of the expedition. By 1901, he'sexplored and will later write about the upper
reaches of the Yellow River, the Yansin River andthe Mekong River. Now these are all like, this is a
pretty big deal for anybody in Russia, but it islike the first time the outside world is getting to

(16:57):
experience some of these things about just theAsian continent as a whole. Like up to this point,
we don't know a ton, right? Now that expeditionwould earn him the Constantine Medal in 1902. And
this is like the closest I can get to is likesomething that our National Geographic would
hand out. In fact, he ends up getting like medalsand accolades for most of the geographic

(17:21):
societies around the world. Like they're soimpressed by what he's doing. So our guy is a
Russian explorer during the time of the GreatGames, which I had to look up because I was like,
what the heck is the Great Games? It's basically19th and early 20th century, this rivalry between
the British and Russian empires for control inCentral Asia. Think Afghanistan, Persia, Tibet.

(17:45):
Like they are vying for who's got the most power inthe most leeway here, right? So both powers,
British and Russian, they use military anddiplomatic means to expand their influence.
Eventually Russia takes Turkestan and Britainexpands all the way to British India. By the early
20th century, much of the region is divided intothese protectorates that are controlled by both

(18:13):
empires. So there's kind of a lot of coming andgoing. And during this time, the British War
Office is paying super close attention to KlausLoth. He's on pretty good terms with everybody,
including the other explorers in the area, but theBritish War Office is like, they're watching him.

(18:34):
They give, there is a moment in 1905 that gives theWar Office what they called a quote. Fright. And
that is because our guy needs the Dalai Lama whoexpresses interest in settling in Russia at some
point, which is like, excuse me. Right. I didn'tthink that was something he like, right? Was he,

(18:57):
did he ask or was it like, have you thought of comingto Russia? So I think what's happening. Okay. So
this is the early 20th century. There is a lot ofupheaval in China and in the Tibetan region as
well. So we're dealing with like the politics ofTibet. We're dealing with the politics of China.

(19:20):
We're dealing with Russians coming in wanting toexplore. And we're also dealing with the British
who are trying to gain more power and more sway hereas well. And the Dalai Lama is sort of stuck in the
middle of all of these like kind of hotbedtensions. zones. So the way I understand it is that

(19:41):
he basically the Dalai Lama makes friends with ourguy Kulswaf and Kulswaf is sort of one of the only
outsiders that's invited into his home and whilethey're meeting he's like, hey, I'm thinking
Russia might be a great place for me. That said, Ithink somebody in our group here needs to do a deep

(20:01):
dialogue in the 20th century Dalai Lama becausethere is a ton of like political espionage
happening with him. It's wild. Kulswaf for hispart is like, I will do what I can but also knows the
Russian government is watching him because thisis now like we're getting ready to pull into the
Bolshevik revolution and like World War II ishappening. Like there's stuff going on that he's

(20:28):
just like, I'm literally just trying to do my job,right? So between the years of 1907 and 1909 he
explores the Gobi Desert and he discovers theruins of this city called Kerekoto which for
whatever reason had already been discovered bysomeone else who sends him a letter like on the eve

(20:52):
of their departure he's like, yo, I already foundit but like we still need you to come out. So team
effort I guess. Now Kerekoto is it's actually areally special city. The words translate to the
black city. We also know it as the dead city. MarcoPolo describes it in his travels which is pretty

(21:13):
cool, right? So I had honestly I had no idea. Right?Marco Polo is fascinating. That's also someone we
should do a deep dive on. Anyway, that all thatsaid, Genghis Khan first takes this city in 1226.
So just shortly before he dies. Then his grandsonKluvlokhan triples it in size during his

(21:40):
lifetime. So honestly that's a pretty good moveconsidering most regimes seem to fall apart from
father to son to grandson. Right, yeah, and all ofthe cons. And this city sort of the way that I
understand it is almost like it sits at this weirdcrossroads of technology and innovation and

(22:05):
commerce and travel but at the same time it's so farset apart from everything else that they don't
trade in like their sheepherders and like keep tothemselves. But everybody knows in Marco Polo's
time like everybody knows it's there. But thenfast forward a little bit 1372 the Ming dynasty

(22:28):
shows up and they essentially sack the place and itwould quite literally disappear to the sands of
time. So Kluvlokhan did a great job and then 1372rolls around in the Ming dynasty like nope you're
done. Because you know I guess that's howexpansion works. Now the exploration and the

(22:48):
evacuation like the excavation of the city wouldtake years and a ton of collaborative efforts on
the part of all forms of academics and scientistsand explorers all type of things. During this time
some 2000 books scrolls and manuscripts of theTanglet language are uncovered and this is a big
deal. Up to this point we've seen very little andall of a sudden all of these like just treasure

(23:15):
trope of information comes out. Fast forward alittle bit our guy Kluvlokhan makes his last
expedition to the area between the years 1923 and1926 with his young wife. She is 29 years his
junior. Oh gosh that yeah whoa I was like 29 yearsold that's young his junior good yeah brief. Yeah

(23:42):
her name is Elizabeth Poos Caranova and she servesas the expedition's ornthologist. So she's well
trained he is old. Yes and one of the things that thehusband found for me while I was telling him last

(24:02):
night like I wish I could just find moreinformation on this guy because I think he had a
really really interesting life but there's likenothing in the in the west for me to see. I don't
speak Russian. I can't read Russian like I don'tfeel like if I Google translate this it's going to
come out telling me the truth like you know what Imean. Well one of the things that he discovered was

(24:25):
that his wife actually would go on to publishseveral of Kluvlokhan's works and like she worked
diligently for decades to ensure that his legacyand his findings were stated and known like that
they just didn't get left on the shelf which I thinkis really cool because she's doing her own job but
then she's also cementing his work to likehistory. Right I think it's pretty cool right now

(24:51):
she publishes several scientific papers andmonographs on the birds of Central Asia like this
she's super into this which I think that's prettycool. Now during this last push through Mongolia
and Tibet there's a discovery of a number ofremarkable bearing belonging to the Shang Nui

(25:12):
people. They're uncovered at a location calledNhoinula and he takes some incredible samples of
2000 year old textiles related to the people ofthat era at that time back to Petrograd because
basically for whatever reason and I think this isfascinating he goes to the Mongolian authorities

(25:36):
and he says I have these samples I have thesetextiles I have these things here you go you take
the best of them would it be okay if I take sampleshome? That is like yeah thank you for the work you
did. That's the opposite of the British Museumright? Right like he there's a comment in one of the

(25:58):
articles that I read that talks about how he wasallowed to keep so many of the things he found that
like his office was basically a small verycluttered little museum because the Russian
government and the Mongolian government neversaw him as a problem they just saw him as someone
doing their job so like he gave them what theywanted and he was allowed to keep a few things here

(26:20):
and there so I'm like good for you. Could youimagine inheriting his stuff and going through it
later? Oh my gosh yeah I mean he they found somereally remarkable things I should have included
photos I'm sorry I did not think to do that till justnow. Now after this so it's 1926 he takes these

(26:44):
textiles home he goes to Petrograd and he's doingyou know the archaeological thing he's writing
the stuff down he's making the notes and then heretires um this is ridiculous but before I can tell
you that there is that article that I told you aboutfrom the Illinois website The True Republican

(27:05):
it's titled The Garden of Eden Gives Up Bones of NewSpecies. I'm just gonna it was wild I recommend it
they go on to describe all the things he found whileon this expedition the the new types of fossils
they found the new types of textiles they foundthey found carp bits that were so well preserved

(27:28):
you could still see the artwork like in the rugthousands of years old yeah oh my gosh so like it's a
big deal so okay he retires though and true to thestyle of his mentor he sets about building his
retirement hut and living a peaceful life unclearwhy that's the thing you do but he does it his wife

(27:52):
and kids visit often but they don't seem to livewith him it's like he literally just he just became
a hermit basically yeah an extrovert at hermitbecause he's still visiting with people and he's
still going about in the world but he's like justdoing his own thing um then in late 27 1927 an

(28:13):
article is released first in the London SundayExpress then the New York the New York Times and the
article starts off saying what I mentionedearlier the tomb of Genghis Khan the great
Mongolian conqueror who lived from 1162 to 1227 ADhas been discovered by professor Peter Kulfloth a
Russian archaeologist near the ruins of the deadcity of Kierokoto in the Gobi Desert now it goes on

(28:36):
to tell this extraordinary story about howprofessor Kulfloth has found the missing tomb and
it gives this great description it says the greatcons bones I mentioned this a little while ago but
the whole description is phenomenal the greatcons bones lie in a silver coffin which rests upon
the 78 crowns of princes and cons whom he conqueredthe secret wonders of the tomb are said to via with

(29:00):
those of Tutankhamun seven silent llamas guard itand every seven hours one of them strikes seven
times a huge jade bell which hangs over thesarcophagus joule-studded weapons of Genghis
his own story as his reign written in tartarchinese at tartar and chinese a life-size lion

(29:21):
tiger and horse in pink jade and a copy of the biblewritten by an english monk and a golden tablet
presented by Marco Polo are also found inside thetomb now right it goes on to talk about how Kulfloth
was also able to visit the tomb of the great consfavorite wife which for whatever reason is 200
miles away the paper says that there's aninscription on her white marble coffin that says

(29:47):
quote per her request and in order that she mightprepare a place for him in the next world the great
con released her by placing his dagger in herbreast and she died in his arms seven days before he
passed well placing the dagger in her chest isn'tthat such great wording there like here you go my

(30:09):
love not how yeah exactly the article further goeson to say quote the tomb lies beyond a labyrinth of
passages cut into the side of the mountain it isabout 40 feet square and once a year a privileged
descendant goes there to offer sacrifices in thecons memory on the anniversary of the cons death

(30:31):
the professor was told his ghost arises and blowsout the lamps and leads the chief lama to a black
slab at the back of the shrine where the priest wearwith the priest hands the ghost writes the
prophecies of the coming year polo said he wasguided to the tomb by gangas con's 18th direct
descendant oslon gangas con to whom he was sent byoslon's russian educated brother coleslaw is

(31:00):
known here as a reputable and reliablearchaeologist he received the founders medal of
the royal geographical society in 1911 for hisexploration work in central asia so can you
imagine a write-up like that in an internationalpaper about yourself no i can't like our guy he's

(31:26):
got some real big feelings about this so he does alogical thing and he reaches out to the paper and
tries to set the record straight because rememberhe's retired he's turned in his paperwork he's
built his retirement hut then so he like i said hereaches out of the paper the november 11th edition

(31:49):
of the paper both the new york times and the sundaylondon express says quote displeased by the story
in a london newspaper that he had discovered thetomb of gangas con especially the account that
said discovery that the discovery outshone tootand cologne and eladon's cave so he's he's not

(32:10):
happy professor coleslaw feels that he is beingheld up to the ridicule of this fellow scientist
because of a story that he never authorized bywhich he had by which had just enough basis of truth
to make something he was playing to the gallery ilove that line he was playing to the gallery the

(32:31):
columnist describes him as a quote modest simplesoul this great explorer is the last man in the
world to seek banile notary or superius fame thegood professor goes on to explain what he thinks
the mix-up was so basically on his last trip tomongolia he stops at this like four-way caravan

(32:53):
stop hops off his camel and has tea he was too nativelike local guides when he notices this rather
peculiar ridge on top of this nearby plateau and heasked the guides about it and they claim they don't
know what it is he doesn't believe him for onesecond so he walks up to the rich himself and this is

(33:13):
what he says he saw quote the rich proved to be acircular mound of rock with small mounds of stones
arranged symmetrically around a 50-foot radiuswith a circular path and four paths leading in a
center at right in at the center at right anglesnear the center mound there was an obelisk of

(33:34):
simple rock rough hewn about five feet high withstones heaped around the base on the obelisk were
these drawings he then goes on to show the reportera sketch of this animal that's described as
resembling a deer in the act of leaping one of themost familiar motifs in the gold relics in the
hermitage museum and the schizo-sarmatic tombsand a series of curious hieroglyphs which closely

(33:58):
resemble the rock inscriptions of the same periodnow this is really exciting for me but i can't tell
you why so i'm very sorry you're just going to haveto take take my word for it coleslaw then goes on to
say he believed that someone of great import wasburied there and that those pilgrimage stones
those are pilgrimage stones that weresurrounding it and this indicates that people are

(34:19):
coming every summer and priests are placing thestones as offerings in this outer circle around
the mound because it would be consideredsacrilegious to approach it any closer so like
he's just putting two and two together yeah righthis final remarks on the tomb are as follows my
opinion is that it would require a year toinvestigate the site properly should the consent

(34:42):
of the mongolian authorities be obtained whichwould be difficult doubtless this it is a tomb of a
great personages as its situation atop such aheight is most unusual and the magnificent view
extending for hundreds of kilometers makes itworthy of a world conqueror it is true that the sep
the sepulchre of gangas con is unknown but thenature of the inscriptions makes me think that

(35:05):
this tomb is far older at any rate i can assure youthat i neither said nor have i written anything
regarding this discovery which as i told you i onlyvisited at a hat hazard and did not intend to
investigate so he sees the school burial mound andhe's like that's great i'm gonna retire one of you

(35:30):
young bucks can come out and dig this up like he sawit saw all the work and went i'm too old for this the
where the strapping youths you know yeah um so likei said finding any information about him and about
this incident was nearly impossible but what iwant to know is like while he isn't like seems to be

(36:00):
getting along with everybody who would write thefirst article who would release this like
remarkable event yeah exactly that like somebodywho's like ooh um i didn't do my my work i'm about to
get fired i need something you know what it's been aslow news day i can i can make this work right i can

(36:26):
click i think i think that's what it was i think thatit was just a slow news day because despite
everything i tried to find and the one paper thatwas translated into english from the the
geographical the the leo of the law school societythey only mentioned very briefly that he may have

(36:47):
had a rival once but even in that i don'tnecessarily think that the guy was a rival i think
that he didn't want he tried to put the kibosh on oneof their expeditions saying that he was too close
to the russian military because we're in the timeof the bolsheviks but other than that other than
that one moment and that one like vague referenceto this random guy that was like please don't go it

(37:13):
seems like he didn't really have any enemy so to me ithink it's just clickbait yeah i mean because i
don't think about it if it was an enemy what wouldthe enemy get out of it other than making him look
cooler than he was i mean at at minimum hebesmirches his name and like takes his
reliability off the board but he's alreadyretired yeah that's not going to do much he you know

(37:37):
he's not trying to he's built his retirement hutdammit he just wants to fish like that's it um but
when i read that article i was like i need to knoweverything i can possibly learn so either way
whether someone was just trying to besmirch hisgood name or it was a slow news day that's the story

(38:01):
of the time gang is gong gang is cons tomb was almostfound i love that i have to tell you that when you did
get on that list of the things i was like wow wow andpink jade and my brain was trying to imagine like i
was all over it and then to realize no i fell for theclickbait i felt you did but you know what not

(38:28):
entirely because in mongolia there is this templefor lack of a better word that hosts the idea of gang
is cons tomb it's like a replica of what they thinkit could have looked like and they've moved it
around several times to protect it like fromdifferent wars and things like that but um i do not
believe there are any life-sized pink jade horsesin there i mean they sound gorgeous if they exist

(38:57):
right yeah i think so too i want to see the 78 crownsof the princes and cons that he conquered that
would just be that is like that is a throne of swordsthat's exactly what i was thinking like how did you
weld them together that his tune can sit right ontop of that's what i'm imagining yeah well i've

(39:24):
enjoyed this this has been good and i hadn't eventhought about doing tombs for spooky season
episode so i am i'm impressed well done and well ifit makes you feel any better i was married shelly
next week if you too are impressed and uh gratefulthat you get to learn about tombs and whatnot rate

(39:50):
review subscribe share this with your favoritewould be a great clickbait article writer and on
that note goodbye bye