The lost grave of Genghiz Khan

[muqawwee123]

Re: The lost grave of Genghiz Khan

@u_ahmed

Alas it’s a hard copy =( The guy who wrote is in anthropologist and actually worked on the secret history when it was finally declassified/opened up..

I’ll share a bit from the intro though.
"Despite the many images and pictures of Genghis Khan made in subsequent years, we have no portrait of him made within his lifetime. Unlike any other conqueror in history, Genghis Khan never allowed anyone to paint his portrait, sculpt his image, or engrave his name or likeness on a coin and the only descriptions of him from contemporaries are more intriguing than informative. In the words of a modern Mognolian song about Genghis Khan, “we have imagined your appearance but our minds were blank’” (xxiv).

“In the absence of reliable information, they projected their own fears and phobias onto these accounts. With the passage of centuries, scholars weighed the atrocities and aggression committed by men such as Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, or Napoleon against their accomplishments or their special mission in history. For Genghis Khan and the Mongols, however, their achievements lay forgotten, while their alleged crimes and brutality became magnified” (xxv-xxvi).

Apparently, usually, mongol women also married somewhat younger men

Cougar?

I think he was deeply in love with his first wife who got abducted, thats why he accepted her son or may be it was not taboo in Mongol society