Hi-tech scan may have found Genghis Khan's lost tomb

Genghis Khan conquered the known world, introducing little-known ideas such as money and writing to countries stretching from Poland to Japan - but his death is still shrouded in mystery.

His tomb - described as a 'time capsule into the birth of the modern world' - has never been found.

Now a project headed by self-confessed Genghis Khan obsessive Dr Albert Yu-Min may have pinpointed the 'lost' tomb for the first time.

Yu-Min's team used satellite imagery, and crowd-sourced an effort to pick out the tomb in the Valley of the Khans - and has now homed in on archaeological 'anomalies'.

The project used a combination of satellite scans, ground-penetrating radar and electro-magnetometry to home in on the area without digging up the ground.

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Dr Yu-Min said, 'Of the top 100 accessible locations identified by the crowd, 55 potential archaeological anomalies were verified by the field team, ranging from bronze age to Mongol period in origin.

'Looking at the data size challenge, we have surveyed a historically significant area of roughly 6,000km2.

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'A ground survey of this detail for the entire range would have been prohibitive.

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'A single archaeologist would have had to scroll through nearly 20,000 screens before covering the whole area.'