Archaeologists Map Ruins of Karakorum, Capital of the Mongol Empire, for the First Time | Smart News
Genghis Khan founded the city, located in what is now central Mongolia, around 1220 C.E.
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Genghis Khan founded the city, located in what is now central Mongolia, around 1220 C.E.
Founded by Genghis Khan's son, Ögödei, in the 13th century CE, the span of the city has been mapped by archaeologists from the University of Bonn in Germany.
Yet the Mongols really were devotedly nomadic: Team mapping Mongol Empire capital of Karakorum discovers that it was ‘implanted,’ not a natural urban development