About three years ago, I was staring at a monitor wall of 2 million crowdsourced “clues” to identify archaeological tombs in Mongolia when three people in black suits walked up and stopped in their tracks. Two of them were from the Department of Defense, and the third was a gruff young doctor named Eliah Spencer…
About three years ago, I was staring at a monitor wall of 2 million crowdsourced “clues” to identify archaeological tombs in Mongolia when three people in black suits walked up and stopped in their tracks. Two of them were from the Department of Defense, and the third was a gruff young doctor named Eliah Spencer…
I recently had the opportunity to speak at length with one of Mongolia’s greatest historians, Professor Shagdaryn Bira, an academic scholar recognized as a State Hero for his lifetime achievement in the preservation of knowledge. It should be noted that this effort was not an easy task through the long periods of cultural repression and…
By Albert Lin, NG Emerging Explorer Hello friends! Today we embark upon the third major expedition of the Valley of the Khans project, with the goal of applying noninvasive technologies to a search for the tomb of Genghis Khan. Over the years we have increased the sophistication of our tools, collected clues, and…