Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Genghis Khan’s Winter Base Camp

From Sci-News:
“Genghis Khan had at least four ordū,” said Dr. Li Narangoa, a historian at the Australian National University.

“The historical documentation appears to indicate the one at Avraga was his main camp, probably for both spring and winter, so this research is significant because it provides the natural science based proof for the findings of historians.”

“This was the camp where Genghis Khan started his campaign against his southern neighbors and this work supports this; it’s a great contribution to historical research.”

“Our research supports Avraga as Genghis Khan’s ordū, and while we still have no conclusive link to him, in my view, Avraga is more likely than not to have been his base camp,” said Dr. Jack Fenner, an archaeologist at the Australian National University.

“We also see evidence of religious or ceremonial functions at Avraga that we see extending into the Yuan Empire in China, which was part of the Mongol Empire’s southern expansion.”

In the study, Dr. Fenner and colleagues took a series of radiocarbon dating samples from what little remains of the main part of Avraga. (Read more.)
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