A team of Japanese and Mongol archaeologists have identify the remains of a thirteenth century military outpost retrieve to belong to Mongol vanquisher Genghis Khan .
Asreportedin The Asahi Shimbun , the discovery is spill light on the Mongol Empire ’s scheme on western expansion and barter road between the thirteenth and 14th C :
The researchers surveyed ruin about 880 kilometers west of Ulan Bator in 2001 and found that geographic lineament around them were similar to the landscape draw in a travel script written by a medieval Chinese Taoism drawing card .
The researchers also unearth piece of Chinese ceramics date stamp to the thirteenth century . An airy picture take in 2001 shows the stiff of a fortress surrounded by a soil wall , valuate 200 meters by 200 beat .
Last summer , the archaeologists used carbon date to determine the age of unearthed Sir Henry Joseph Wood chips and animal bones found at the site . The psychoanalysis showed the wood pieces were from the 12th to thirteenth century , while the bone were estimate to date to the fourteenth century .
The archaeologist say the items belong to a castle used as a military radical when Genghis Khan was leading his historic encroachment of Central Asia . The fort was commission by a stuffy aide to Genghis in 1212 . Prior to this find and analysis , researchers level to other areas as the possible land site of the former castling . This discovery may serve as the last confirmation needed .
[ h / tThe Archaeology News web ]
figure of speech : Nipponese - Mongolian Joint Research Team
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