Mongolia’s “Forbidden Zone” is guarding an 800-year-old secret

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By Frank Jacobs

June 26, 2023

When you drive north toward Ordos City in China’s Inner Mongolia province, you can’t miss the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan. The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style, houses genuine relics and is an important sanctuary for the shamanic worship of the legendary Mongol leader. But the Khan’s tomb is properly called a cenotaph — a monument to someone buried elsewhere — because it is empty.

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