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Archaeologists Uncover an Ancient Palace That May Be the Long-Lost Summer Home of Genghis Khan’s Warrior Grandson
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| July 25, 2022
| Sarah Cascone
Posted on 08/02/2022 5:01:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered the remains of an ancient palace that may have belonged to Hulagu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan.
The site in eastern Turkey's Van province, in the Caldiran district, is currently being excavated.
Hulagu Khan, a Mongol warlord who lived from about 1217 to 1265, achieved military renown for leading several expeditions, including the sack of Baghdad in 1258.
After the Mongol Empire splintered in 1259, Hulagu Khan became the ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanid State in the Middle East, which at its height included territory in what is now Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Dagestan, and Tajikistan.
Historical sources state that during the 1260s, Hulagu Khan built a summer palace in Caldiran.
The newly discovered ruins have yet to be definitively identified as the lost residence, but the excavation team... have unearthed shards of glazed ceramics and pottery, porcelain, bricks, and roof tiles.
The researchers, who are working under Turkey's General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, believe this could be the first known architectural remains of the Ilkhanid State...
Important clues pointing to Hulagu Khan's ownership are a number of "'s'-like symbols on the roof-ending tiles" known as the "svastika pattern or tamga," Munkhtulga Rinchinkhorol, a Mongolian Academy of Sciences archaeologist working on the dig, told Live Science.
"[That is] one of the power symbols of the Mongol Khans."
The site, which appears to have been heavily looted, also contains the remains of a caravanserai, one of the travelers' inns that would have dotted the Silk Road trade route.
Through further excavations, researchers hope to uncover the church that historical sources say Hulagu Khan built for his wife.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: abbasidempire; afghanistan; armenia; azerbaijan; baghdad; baytalhikmah; caldiran; dagestan; genghiskhan; georgia; godsgravesglyphs; hulagukhan; ilkhanids; iran; iraq; mongols; pakistan; syria; tajikistan; turkey; turkmenistan
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:01:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:01:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Fred Nerks
There they go again, excavating your digs from former lives!
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:07:16 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: SunkenCiv
Hulagu owes a lot of back rent. Losing track of where your home is is no excuse.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:08:23 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: TigersEye
Did they find the laptop?
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:09:03 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true . . . . . I may not have proof, but they're true !)
To: knarf
I think they buried that with The Big Guy. Ghengis Khan.
His tomb hasn’t been found yet.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:11:14 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: SunkenCiv
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.
To: SunkenCiv
Jon Cary will be interested in this.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:13:07 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
To: Not_Who_U_Think
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:20:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:22:24 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Old Yeller
“Jon Cary will be interested in this.”
He’s more interested in Jenchis Khan
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:26:29 PM PDT
by
BobL
(The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
To: SunkenCiv
"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.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:32:31 PM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:42:20 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: SunkenCiv
Some argue the Muslim world never recovered intellectually after the sack of Baghdad. That part of the world became an intellectual backwater.
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posted on
08/02/2022 5:44:15 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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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posted on
08/02/2022 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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- The Hidden History Of Men (Anthropology) [11/21/2004]
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- I'm Galled. Anyone else? [09/03/2004]
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posted on
08/02/2022 6:19:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Hiddigeigei
That first stanza is one of my favorites!
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posted on
08/02/2022 6:20:21 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: C19fan
Plus, new rugs were widely available in Baghdad.
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posted on
08/02/2022 6:33:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
08/02/2022 6:46:20 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Not_Who_U_Think
…..And he is reincarnated into Joe Biden.
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posted on
08/02/2022 7:15:23 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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