From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, the lost tombs of such historical figures continue to fascinate the public and ...

The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

The Genghis Khan National Museum is one of the ... in China was a leader of the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and he persuaded the authorities to build a mausoleum of Genghis Khan.

D alley claims the lack of archaeological evidence is due, rather, to the fact that the Gardens weren't located in Babylon at all, but rather in Nineveh, the capital city of Assyr ...

Before Genghis Khan died in August 1227 CE, he requested that his grave not be marked in any way. However, this hasn't stopped a variety of individuals, from archaeologists to grave robbers, from ...

China is renovating Genghis Khan's mausoleum, located in Ejin Horo Banner on the Ordos Highlands in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at a cost of 150 million yuan (US$18.13 million).

800-year-old hunt for Genghis Khan’s tomb hidden in ‘Forbidden Zone’ mountains One of the greatest conquerors in history died hundreds of years ago, but his grave has never been found.

Mysterious tomb reveals what Mongolia was like before Genghis Khan. Period between collapse of Khitan Empire around 1125AD and rise of Mongol Empire in 1206AD is poorly understood ...

An “elite grave” from the 12th century uncovered in Mongolia sheds fresh light on the poorly understood period before the rise of the world’s greatest conqueror, Ghengis Khan. The grave, now ...

Although tomb culture, inherited from the neighboring Chinese, was well-established by the time Genghis Khan was born, many were constructed underground, some at a depth of more than 65 feet.