Hungarian family awarded trip to Mongolia

BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 31 (UPI) -- A Hungarian history student won a trip to Mongolia by being the 50,000th person to see an exhibit in Budapest of Mongol Genghis Khan's life.

Undergraduate Vince Kristof Farkas, his mother and his younger sister Tuesday entered the National Museum in Budapest and were told all would be given tickets for a nine-day trip to Mongolia, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported.

Mongolian Ambassador in Budapest Omboosuren Erdenechimeg and Museum's director Tibor Kovacs gave the Farkas family a guided tour of the exhibit, which opened in May.

More than 500 art objects from 20 European and Mongolian collections, including paintings, gold artifacts, Buddhist statues and writings are displayed at the exhibit.

The artifacts cover the 12th-century period of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, nomadic life and connections between Buddhism and Mongols.

Genghis Khan invaded what now are territories of Poland and Hungary in the late 12th century.