Fall from Gengis Khan

The site of the falls from Gengis Khan (death in 1227) was the object of many theories and research. To date, it was not discovered yet.

Historical accounts

Gengis Khan wanted to be buried in a anonymous Tombe, not marked. After its death, its body is sent in Mongolia, probably towards its birthplace in what is today the province of Hentiy, and is buried close to the river Onon. According to the legend, the funerary escort killed all those which crossed its way to hide the place of the burial. Once fall to it built, the slaves who built it were massacred and the soldiers who killed them were killed in their turn.

The Mausolée of Gengis Khan is a monument which is not located on the place of the burial. The local legend tells that the river would have been diverted to pass above its tomb, hiding it thus forever (the king sumérien Gilgamesh of Uruk would have been buried same manner). Another legend would tell the redécouverte tomb thirty years after the death of Gengis Khan: a young person Chameau would have been buried with the Khan, and his/her mother would have been found in tears on her tomb.

Marco Polo will write that already at the end of the 13th century the Mongols did not know any more the site of the tomb. The secret Histoire of the Mongols mentions the year of dead of Gengis Khan but does not give any index on the place of its burial. Other sources claim that it tomb would be in the area of the mount Burkhan Khaldun; this area was called Ikh Khorig , or Great Taboo . This area of 240 km was prohibited by the Mongols and any person being introduced was condemned there to death. It has been only for these two last decades that it was opened with the Western archeologists.

Seek

There were rumors according to which the Soviet would have removed in 1937 of a Buddhist monastery a standard containing of the indices on the site of the tomb. It there also of the rumors of a curse which would have caused the death of two archeologists French (similar to the curse of the tomb of Tamerlan, Gur-e Amir).

The October 6th 2004, one claims to have discovered it palate of Gengis Khan , which will make perhaps possible the discovery of its tomb.

The archeologist amateur Maury Kravitz dedicated forty years of his life to the research of the tomb. In an account of the 15th century written by a Jesuit French, it found a reference to one of the first battles gained by Gengis Khan, at the time still called Temüjin. According to this account, it would have chosen a place with the convergence of the rivers Kherlen and Bruchi , with Burkhan Khaldun behind him and on the right, and after its victory he would have said that this place would be forever its favorite. Kravitz, convinced that it was the place of the tomb of Gengis Khan, tried to find it, but the place remains unknown cartographers. It however found the Toponyme Baruun Bruch ( Western Bruch ) in the area. It made excavations since there 2006, to approximately 100 km in the east of Burkhan Khaldun, in the area of Bayanbulag.

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