Genghis Khan may have been killed by a pandemic
A new investigation suggests that the great warrior-emperor succumbed to the plague.
Although Genghis Khan’s memory lives to this day, the circumstances of his death are still shrouded in mystery after 800 years. There are many legends surrounding the cause of the Khan’s untimely death, from blood loss following a stab wound to injuries sustained after tumbling from his horse. But a new study suggests that it was, in fact, the bubonic plague that ultimately got to the fearsome conqueror.
Slave or emperor, they’re all the same to the plague