Genghis Khan's Mongolia:
The IMAX Film
In 2008, Mongolia and Genghis Khan will be reaching out to the world again. The blockbuster Genius of Genghis Khan Exhibition, including the first showing of his treasures, will begin its four-year, 10-city tour of North America’s largest science museums. And Genghis Khan’s Mongolia will open in IMAX theaters worldwide.
Mongolia is as rich as it is challenging. On the slopes of its craggy mountains roam wild camels, giant sheep and elk, and even the rare snow leopards. Giant trout course its pure streams, and cranes line the shores of some of the world’s deepest, clearest lakes.
Experience all these wonders up close through Genghis Khan’s Mongolia—the first wide-screen film to travel to the far reaches of this mysterious land and explore its unique traditions and spectacular history.
THE LAND OF GENGHIS KHAN
Genghis Khan built this great country and influenced much of the modern world. It is to the Great Khan that we owe paper money, the post office, national parks, the pony express, wide use of the printing press 400 years before Gutenberg, even the wearing of trousers. His magnificent treasures are still surfacing across this windswept land, plumbed now at the vast ruins of his great capital of Karakorum—once the bustling, safe home to 400,000 international citizens at a time when Venice numbered but 7,000 souls.
The Khan's traditions endure in Mongolia. Each summer, at medieval-era contests, colorful wrestlers, mounted archers, falconers and young jockeys still battle. Yet Mongolia is changing fast, pushed by one of the world’s youngest and most literate populations. Ulan Bataar, its one city, holds more than 400,000 now, a third of them in the nomad’s circular felt gers.
Genghis Khan’s Mongolia brings you to the sites of ongoing exploration—whether spotting lost cities from the air in an ocean of grassland, digging away at bizarre dinosaurs miraculously preserved in Gobi dunes, or piecing together clues to human history in laboratories half a world away.
How pervasive was the influence of the great Khan? His DNA was recently discovered to be present in 30% of the world’s population. But science has yet to crack the greatest mystery of all: the whereabouts of Genghis Khan’s hidden tomb, perhaps the repository of one of the world’s most spectacular treasures. By air and land the technological quest goes on, following ancient clues and probing buried remains.
Mongolia is a spectacular world treasure—a land of majesty past and present and, with vision, the future.Principal shooting for Genghis Khan’s Mongolia will commence in spring, 2007 under the supervision of an international array of historians and curators.
For more information, contact Julie Flower, Press Coordinator, at julie@dinodon.com or 610-892-0773.
