Mysteries of the Great Wall of China

Mysteries of the Great Wall of China book cover — ALTERNATOR BOOKS MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA Karen Latchana Kenney Lerner Publications Minneapolis

Mysteries of the Great Wall of China — page 1 — INTRODUCTION A LONG FORGOTTEN WALL An ancient atlas held a clue that British researcher William Lindesay couldn't resist It showed a section of a wall in the Gobi Desert region of southern Mongolia Locally it was known as the Wall of Genghis after the once powerful Mongolian leader Khan Genghis

Mysteries of the Great Wall of China — page 2 — Lindesay had been curious about the wall since 1997 when a friend gave him the atlas that had been written in the twelfth century Lindesay had a suspicion that the wall wasn't actually Mongolian at all Lindesay contacted an expert on Mongolian geography Professor Baasan Tudevin who had traveled throughout the Gobi Desert He had seen different structures there and suggested using Google Earth to locate the wall Amazingly in the Google Earth images Tudevin and Lindesay saw a thin black line where the atlas showed wall the

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