Looking for Genghis Khan's tomb

 Genghis Khan was a famous character in History. He lived between the XII and XIII centuries and was a Mongolian leader who created and ruled a vast empire in Asia, in fact one of the greatest empires in the history of the world. Before he died in 1227, he ordered that his tomb should be in a secret place, so that nobody could find it. A legend says that the soldiers and servants who buried him killed themselves after the ceremony. This way, nobody could speak about it.

Today, some investigators are trying to find the famous tomb using Google maps, but it's difficult because Asia is enoooormous. You can read this fascinating story in The Washigton Post.

In this map, you can see the extension of the Mongol empire. He started in the distant Mongolia and after his death, the Mongols even arrived to Europe, conquering part of today's Russia.

[Humanities] New Van Gogh painting discovered

A new surprise for the world of Art has just happened. Three experts from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam discovered a new picture by the artist in Norway. Sunset at Montmajour, the provisional title given by experts, was painted in 1888 while Van Gogh was living in Arles, south of France. The painting is a landscape showing a beautiful countryside near Arles with a ruined abbey on the hill of Montmajour.

A Norwegian industrialist, C. N. Mustad, bought the painting in 1908 and took it home to Norway. Some time later, an art collector and expert visited Mustad and suggested it was probably a fake. Furious, the industrialist sent it to the attic.So, it has been more than 100 years lost to the public eye. The picture will be on display in the Van Gogh Museum from 24 September.

 

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*landscape: (n) paisaje.

*abbey: (n) abadía.

*fake: (n) falsificación.

*on display: en exposición.