Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-11-14

Books mentioned on CLASSIC: The Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan

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Genghis Khan was one of the world's most successful conquerors, and his empire left an indelible mark across Eurasia. Yet upon his death his body was spirited away to an unmarked grave, and everyone associated with the burial -- so far as we know -- was put to death in an effort to keep the location secret.

Ben Bowlin discussed The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Travels of Marco Polo

    Marco Polo · at 35:36

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    “and in the travels of Marco Polo he writes that it has been an invariable custom that all the grand KH and Chiefs of the race of jangus Khan should be carried for interment to a certain lofty Mountain named alte and in whatever place they may happen to die all the it should be at the distance of a”
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