The tented encampment of Jenghis Khan
 
Date Description Source Reference
13th century.  A much decorated version of a yurt (all most condom shape in profile) in the foreground. 

In the back ground are smaller tents, conical in shape with a very short straight wall section in a contrasting diagonal stripped pattern. The very top of these smaller tents is flat.

 “The tented encampment of Jenghis Khan; the warlord’s tent was always pitched to give him an unobscured view of the horizon.” Bibliothèque National, Paris/ Weidenfeld Library. Humble, R., Warfare in the Middle Ages, London, 1989, p. 101. 

 Link to picture

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