Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication, September 29th, 2000
Chicago Businessman Undertakes Three-Year Search for the Great Conqueror's Long-Lost Burial Chamber
To begin, here's an exercise for your imagination: In your mind, travel back in time more than seven centuries--to the year 1227.
That may not seem like an awfully long time ago--not like going back to the time of the dinosaurs, for example--but in some ways the world of 1227 might seem as strange to modern Americans as the age of the dinosaurs. For one thing, the world 700 years ago would be strangely quiet to modern ears. There were no cars, trucks, planes, lawn mowers, or motors of any ki...
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