Posted on 01/10/2015 9:18:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Location of the tomb was, after all, an archaeological enigma lacking historical descriptions of its visual appearance.The authors said that not a single burial of the Mongolian imperial family has been identified. What is more, there are largely undocumented cultural heritage sites across a sparsely populated and undeveloped landscape. So while looking for the tomb was a motivation, the effort was also to leverage the power of human perception in a search for the unexpected. This was a challenge. The authors said that without a pre-existing reference for validation they turned towards consensus, defined by kernel density estimation, to pool human perception for "out of the ordinary" features across a vast landscape, developing a collective reasoning engine for anomaly detection.
Leave alone looking for a needle in a haystack, in the scenario here, the appearance of the needle was undefined. Speaking about the enigma, an article in Smithsonian.com said, "The tomb of Genghis Khan -- Mongolian ruler, warrior, and ancestor to an estimated one out of every 200 humans alive today -- has been a mystery for almost as long as the man has been buried. Legend has it that when he died in 1227, soldiers killed the tomb builders as well as every person the funeral procession passed. Then, it is said, the soldiers themselves were killed so that no one who knew the tomb's location would live to share it."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Tagging Interface: (a) Example of tags being made. Tags are color coded with roads (red), rivers (blue), ancient (yellow), modern (grey), and other (green) structures; (b) Example of peer feedback after a participant completes their annotation task. Results of all previous observers of that image tile are shown. Satellite imagery provided courtesy of the GeoEye Foundation. Credit: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114046.g001
Have they heard from John F’n Kerry yet?
He is an expert on both the techniques and the proper pronunciation of JZHenZhjiss Khan.
I know where it is but if I told you, I’d have to kill you.
If I wanted a pony, could I crowd source that too?
Look through Kruschev’s papers. He said “WE WILL BURY YOU!”
YES!
Crowdsourcing... Interesting concept. Heck with Ghengis Khan! Let’s use crowdsourcing to find the Lost Dutchman’s Mine.
They want it hidden
I would like to find Cochise the Apache’s
burial site,probably easier.
:’)
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