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THE SEARCH FOR GENGHIS KHAN.

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication  |  Date: 9/29/2000

Chicago Businessman Undertakes Three-Year Search for the Great Conqueror's Long-Lost Burial Chamber

To begin, here's an exercise for your imagination: In your mind, travel back in time more than seven centuries--to the year 1227.

That may not seem like an awfully long time ago--not like going back to the time of the dinosaurs, for example--but in some ways the world of 1227 might seem as strange to modern Americans as the age of the dinosaurs. For one thing, the world 700 ...

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