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About the Project
While diving deep into ancient mysteries of the unknown and forging through some of the most unexplored regions of central Asia, the Valley of the Khans Project continues to search for clues that can unlock one of the greatest secrets of modern history.
Based out of the Center for Interdisciplinary Science in Art, Architecture, and Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin has utilized the most advanced technologies in remote sensing to approach an 800-year-old mystery and discover the truth behind the life, death, and burial of the most influential conqueror of all time.
Genghis Khan (Chingghis Khaan) remains to this day the most accomplished man to have walked the Earth. Rising from an outcast life to be the ruler of the most expansive empire to have ever existed, Genghis introduced an alphabet and central currency, united a kingdom of warring tribes, and conquered the majority of the known world. His influence stretched from Poland to Japan, leaving a legacy of unsurpassed proportions.
It is known now that one in every 200 men on the planet today is related to Genghis Khan. But what happened to his empire? How did his life end? What happened to this incredible man? There are no accounts of the events that surrounded his death and burial, only a shroud of mystery that includes forbidden lands, royal guards, curses, and speculations that remain today.
With initial funding from an NGS/Waitt grant, the team, in collaboration with the Mongolian Academy of Science and Mongolia’s top scholars, has begun a technology-enabled, noninvasive search for the last story of the conqueror of the world.
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