Children of the Khan. 2013

Born Temujin in 1162, a man who later changed his name to Chinggis Khan (king), though better known in the west as Genghis Khan, a man (and his warriors) feared throughout Eurasia, the architect of what is considered to have been the world’s largest empire, a man credited with massacres on an epic scale, yet who encouraged religious tolerance, promoting trade, making the the Silk Road work efficiently and established the first postal system. He had, according to records, as many as fifty wives and one recent study suggests that 8% of all central Asian males have one common ancestor who live around 1,000 years ago. That man is believed to be Chinggis Khan. These images are a portrait of some of his present-day descendants living within Mongolia.