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SCIENCE: The Softer Side of Genghis Khan...
...public has an unprecedented chance to peer over the shoulders of archaeologists and historians and get a firsthand look at the legacy of the Mongols and their Asian predecessors. A traveling exhibition called "Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan" opened last week at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City after a hugely successful five-month run at California's Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The show features more than 200 artifacts dating from roughly 2000 B.C. through the dynasty founded by Genghis Khan's grandson, Kubilai Khan, in the 13th...
...story researchers have pieced together from these artifacts contains plenty of surprises. Says Kessler: "From our knowledge of Genghis Khan and the Mongols, we had assumed tribes in this region spent most of their time on horseback. But archaeology is beginning to show that from 6000 B.C. on, these were agrarian societies." The northern peoples had much in common with the Chinese to the south:stone altars and pieces of jade carved into dragons suggest there was a common origin for the two groups' important beliefs, rituals and religious concepts. In addition, recent excavations have uncovered the remains of more...
...time Temujen, the future Genghis Khan, was born in the 1160s, the Jin were in decline, and the tribes of the steppe were once again at war with one another. When Temujen was nine, his father, a clan leader, was poisoned by Tatars; the clan then abandoned the rest of the family. Isolated and impoverished, mother and children were forced to eat rats and insects to survive. Temujen eventually reclaimed his hereditary right to be clan leader, and by means of powerful alliances, marriage and a series of battles, he began to annex rival tribes. In 1206 tribal leaders declared...
...surveying trips to the area, hopes Americans will get their chance to dig as well. "There is a fantastic potential there for finding well-preserved artifacts," he says. Considering what scientists have learned from the pieces they have found so far, the broadening of our understanding of Genghis Khan and the Mongols has barely begun...