00:00Gengis Khan a built the most big earth empire in history,
00:05from the Pacific to the East Europe.
00:08He led immense armies, changed the world world,
00:11then he just disappeared, literally.
00:16There is a huge mausolean in the interior of his name,
00:21filled with objects liés to his memory,
00:23but when we enter, there is no body, no tomb.
00:28Because Gengis Khan is not entered.
00:31More than 800 years later,
00:34no one knows where the real tomb is found.
00:36The man who lived on all this territory remains unbearable.
00:41The most fascinating,
00:43it is that scientists think finally be close to the found.
00:47But there is a mistake,
00:49they could never have the right to creuse.
00:52There is something strange in all this story.
00:55The pharaon Khéops tried to become immortal in building the pyramids.
01:02A Chinese emperor is still further away.
01:05He made a whole army of terres cuites to protect him after his death.
01:10Gengis Khan is a even bigger name than these two.
01:14But there is practically nothing.
01:16No tombstone, no monument.
01:18And yet, it is understood quite well.
01:22First, it was not his genre.
01:24It was a nomad.
01:26The buildings and the underground properties were not interested.
01:30Then, we did not know where or how he found his death.
01:35But there is an element that could help us to break the mystery of his tomb.
01:40Let's discover it together.
01:43Let's discover it together.
01:44Before becoming Gengis Khan,
01:46he was called Temujin.
01:47He was born near a mountain called Burkhan Khaldun,
01:51in the actual north-est of the Mongolian.
01:54His childhood was rough.
01:56His family fought for survival.
01:58And the danger was everywhere.
02:00After all, Burkhan Khaldun is becoming an important place for him.
02:05And some stories affirm that he wanted to be buried there.
02:10But the place of his tombstone is not the only mystery that Gengis Khan has left us.
02:15In the summer of 1227,
02:18the powerful sovereign was located near the superior floor of the Yellowstone.
02:22He was a new military camp.
02:24He had then almost 70 years old,
02:27but still participated in battle and extended his empire.
02:31And then, he is dead.
02:34The most strange,
02:36it is that the sources say almost nothing about the circumstances of his death.
02:40The main chronicle mongole of the time
02:43speaks more than his life than his end.
02:47What we have today,
02:48are only speculations.
02:50Some stories say that he was hit by the fudre.
02:54Some say that he was hit by the blood.
02:56The story is also talking.
02:58Some stories of wounds,
02:59of malediction and vengeance of his enemies.
03:02Nothing knows where his stories,
03:04if any one is true,
03:07A story says that his wife,
03:10Yessui,
03:11has prepared his body
03:12He was used to dress his body
03:15He was clothed in ordinary clothes,
03:16in a fountain bowl,
03:20The story also tells us that a horse without cavalier,
03:23wearing the selle vide of Gengis Khan,
03:26has joined the funerals.
03:28And yet, no one of these texts
03:30gives the least indication of the place of his burial.
03:34The old legends say that those who enterred
03:36have everything made to hide the place.
03:40Certains say that they have made thousands of horses
03:43on the site after the enterrement
03:45to avoid any trace of the tomb.
03:49Another affirming that a river
03:51was temporarily destroyed by the tomb,
03:54the dissimulant entirely.
03:56We don't know if these stories are true,
03:58but they show that someone wanted
04:01that the place of hiding in Gengis Khan
04:03was secret.
04:05Like no one found the tomb,
04:08several countries have affirmed
04:09that Gengis Khan could enter into their territory,
04:12even if most of these claims
04:15are on very few proofs.
04:17But there is an indication
04:19that historians take seriously.
04:22Just after the enterrement of Gengis Khan,
04:25a vast area around Burkhan Khaldun
04:27was forbidden to access.
04:29It covers about 240 km2.
04:32We call it the big taboo.
04:35Or,
04:37penetrating into this area was forbidden.
04:39Only the members of the family of Gengis Khan
04:42had the right to enter,
04:44in general for funerals.
04:46But there is another hypothesis.
04:48This protected zone
04:49is perhaps never been the real place
04:52of the burial.
04:53Some historians think that
04:55it was an enormous diversion
04:57for people looking for the wrong place.
05:00Well,
05:00if it was the plan,
05:02it worked remarkably well.
05:04A group called the Darkhade
05:06has kept the zone for centuries.
05:09In exchange,
05:10they were exempted
05:11of bills and military services.
05:13Their descendants
05:14have continued
05:15to protect the region
05:16for nearly 700 years.
05:18At the beginning of the 1990s,
05:22scientists have scanned the zone
05:23and discovered
05:24more than 1000 sites
05:25funeraires possible
05:26liés à des nobles mongols.
05:28But the problem
05:29was to determine
05:30which could be the one
05:33of Gengis Khan.
05:34And even
05:35if they found the exact place,
05:37they probably wouldn't have
05:39the right to find out.
05:41For many Mongols,
05:43Gengis Khan
05:44is the founder
05:45of their nation.
05:46And profaner
05:47sa tomb
05:47would be perceived
05:48as a profound lack of respect.
05:51That's why,
05:51in 2008,
05:53tried a different approach
05:55to find the tomb
05:56without touching the ground.
05:58They used
05:59satellites,
06:00a radar
06:01to the ground
06:02and other scan tools.
06:04They even asked
06:05to analyze
06:07thousands of images
06:08satellites
06:08at the time
06:09of Gengis Khan.
06:11The project,
06:12called Vallée
06:13des Cannes,
06:14revealed
06:14hundreds of objects
06:16liés
06:16at the time
06:16of Gengis Khan.
06:18There are
06:19and other
06:22vestiges
06:22from the beginning
06:23of the year 1200.
06:26Then,
06:27near the summit
06:27of Burkhan Khaldun,
06:29the team found
06:30what seemed
06:31to a large
06:32and the rest
06:33of an immense structure.
06:35It was unusual.
06:37After all,
06:38the Mongols
06:39were nomads
06:40and rarely build
06:41permanent buildings.
06:43If a big structure
06:44was there,
06:45it was very important.
06:49Unfortunately,
06:51the technology
06:51has reached its limits.
06:53To know
06:54if it is
06:55the tomb
06:56of Gengis Khan,
06:57the archaeologists
06:59have found
06:59the site.
07:00And it is
07:01that it is
07:02complicated.
07:03In Mongolian,
07:04very few people
07:05support the idea
07:06of opening an event
07:07tomb.
07:09The legends
07:10tell us
07:11that Gengis Khan
07:12wanted his people
07:13to continue to live
07:14while his body
07:15would disappear
07:16in the landscape
07:17of his native land.
07:18That's why
07:19the tomb
07:20the most famous
07:21famous world
07:22could remain.
07:23Not because
07:24we can't find it,
07:25but because
07:26many think
07:27it should never be.
07:32Gengis Khan
07:33did not always
07:34follow the tradition
07:35he-même.
07:36At his time,
07:37many tribes
07:38offered
07:39the most important
07:40to their peers,
07:41whether they were
07:42competent
07:43or not.
07:45Gengis Khan
07:46did the things
07:46differently.
07:47Gengis Khan
07:48the people
07:49according to their
07:49competences,
07:50their loyalty
07:50and their results.
07:52It was a really
07:54talented strategy.
07:55He planned
07:57for the long
07:57He was able
07:58to bring
07:58his enemies
08:00to the long
08:02campaign.
08:03He was able
08:04to fight
08:05his enemies
08:05with ruse.
08:06One of his
08:07favorite tactics
08:07was to end
08:09the defeat.
08:10His soldiers
08:11fought
08:11and fought
08:12in retraite,
08:14making them
08:14believe
08:14that they were
08:14a easy victory.
08:16He was able
08:21to fight
08:22the army
08:22of Gengis Khan.
08:24And suddenly,
08:26the Mongols
08:26fought
08:27and attacked
08:28several directions
08:29at the same time.
08:30Aïe !
08:31This ruse
08:32allowed to win
08:33many battles
08:34against the
08:35armies
08:35even bigger.
08:37Gengis Khan
08:38also knew
08:38the power of fear.
08:40Sometimes,
08:41after having
08:42taken a city,
08:43some survivors
08:44came out
08:45His survivors
08:46spread
08:47stories
08:47on the Mongolian army
08:48and these stories
08:50terrified
08:50the next city
08:52to point
08:52that they
08:53turned out
08:53even before the
08:54beginning of a battle.
08:57In 1206,
08:58Gengis Khan
08:59was defeated
09:00the powerful
09:00tribe of Naiman
09:01who controlled
09:02the parts of the
09:03Middle East
09:04and the current
09:05Kazakhstan
09:06For the first time,
09:08the most
09:08of the Mongolian tribes
09:09were united
09:10under one single
09:10head.
09:11It's there that
09:12he received his name,
09:13Gengis Khan.
09:14It means
09:17Universel
09:19Diriger
09:19un tel empire
09:20était difficile
09:21sans communication
09:22rapide.
09:23Pour résoudre
09:24ce problème,
09:25Gengis Khan
09:26a créé
09:27un vaste réseau
09:28de relais.
09:28Les coursiers
09:29pouvaient s'y arrêter,
09:31changer de cheval
09:32et repartir
09:33presque aussitôt.
09:34Les messages
09:35pouvaient parcourir
09:36des centaines
09:37de kilomètres
09:37en une seule journée.
09:39C'était incroyablement
09:40rapide
09:41pour les années 1200.
09:43Les enseignants
09:44et les médecins
09:45de l'empire
09:46de Gengis Khan
09:47ont essayé
09:47d'un traitement spécial.
09:49Ils étaient souvent
09:50exemptés d'impôts
09:51et de certaines obligations.
09:53Personne ne les marginalisait.
09:55Au contraire,
09:56on les encourageait
09:57à travailler
09:57et à partager leur savoir
09:58dans tout l'empire.
10:00Gengis Khan
10:01a changé l'histoire,
10:02mais le lieu
10:03où la sienne
10:03s'est achevée
10:04restera peut-être
10:05caché à jamais.
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