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The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

by bikenaga on 5/28/25, 3:07 PM with 20 comments

• by Jun8 on 5/28/25, 7:21 PM

  This wall is usually referred to as Wall of Chinggis, although it has nothing to do with Genghis Khan. Here’s another paper from Nature about it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0524-2.

  Here’s an interesting link that gives place names so you can look up the wall on Google maps (not much to see): https://www.escapetomongolia.com/blog/wall-of-chinggis-in-do.... According to it the wall starts at Bayan-Adarga (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayan-Adarga,_Khentii) and continues to Gurvanzagal (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurvanzagal).

• by johnea on 5/28/25, 7:10 PM

  A better link:

  https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/05/the-mysterious-gob...

  I wish people would stop linking to phys.org. It's primarily a spam ad promoting agregation site...

• by burnte on 5/28/25, 5:16 PM

  > Until now, its origins, function, and historical context remained largely unknown.

  I'm pretty sure we know its function, though. Walls have one function, to be a barrier.