Archaeologists Uncover an Ancient Palace That May Be the Long-Lost Summer Home of Genghis Khan’s Warrior Grandson

Look at this letter that Helagu Khan sent to the Mamluk Sultan in 1260! (History Vanity) [05/29/2022]

There they go again, excavating your digs from former lives!

Hulagu owes a lot of back rent. Losing track of where your home is is no excuse.

Did they find the laptop?

I think they buried that with The Big Guy. Ghengis Khan.
His tomb hasn’t been found yet.

I seem to remember, in the conquest of Baghdad, that the ruler had shot his mouth off about how he was going to beat the Mongols, until they arrived - then he begged for peace.

So the Mongols said “okay, but to show you really mean it send all your soldiers outside the city walls without their weapons”

Showing good faith, the Baghdad ruler did that.

And then, the Mongols killed everybody.

Jon Cary will be interested in this.

The Mongols were among the worst POS in history. OTOH, they were killing muzzies, so, everyone else wins.

How the Mongols Took Over Baghdad in 1258
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-mongol-siege-of-baghdad-1258-195801

“Jon Cary will be interested in this.”

He’s more interested in Jenchis Khan

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

There is the story Halagu rolled up the Caliph in a carpet or sack and had his men ride over him until death. To the Mongols this was a sign of respect as there was no blood spilled.

Some argue the Muslim world never recovered intellectually after the sack of Baghdad. That part of the world became an intellectual backwater.

Intellectually, yeah, good one. The muzzie golden age is exaggerated, to say the least.

Their earliest experience of a large quantity of classical learning was their incineration of the Great Library of Alexandria.

Later muzzies encountered a storehouse of classical selections that had been carted off to a 'heretical' monastery in pre-muzzie Iran. Which luckily was found by someone with some intellectual curiousity. Today he'd be beheaded while the crowd of his former soldiers chanted "allah akbar".

The Turks acquired some of the stuff preserved by the Byzantines, but were already familiar with it from their own ingress to the Middle East.

The Spanish Reconquest of Spain led to rediscovery/reintroduction of lost classical texts (in Arab translations, mostly) left behind by the Saracens as they were slowly expelled. That Spanish cache was arguably the most valuable literary collection in history. :^)

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That first stanza is one of my favorites!

Plus, new rugs were widely available in Baghdad.

I am always amazed that in lands that have been populated for thousands of years, people cannot remember where they left landmarks and towns.

Seems such lore would be part of directions for travels…

*Go south after you pass the Khan grandkid’s place.

…..And he is reincarnated into Joe Biden.