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Burial mounds in Mongolia · Mysteria

CategoriesBurial mounds

Burial mounds

Earth heaped over the dead: the most widespread monument humans ever built.

Places: 30
Countries: 8
World Heritage: 3

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🇲🇳 Mongolia

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus

Gol Mod 2 Xiongnu Royal Necropolis

Early Iron Age, Xiongnu (Hunnu) Empire period · Xiongnu (Hunnu) imperial confederacy

80×80 m trapezoidal Xiongnu royal mausoleum (1st c. BCE) with Han lacquer and 400 satellite shaft tombs.

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🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus

Duurlig Nars Xiongnu Cemetery – Khentii

Late Iron Age, Xiongnu Empire · Xiongnu (Hunnu) northern imperial elite

Xiongnu elite shaft tombs in Khentii pine forest—Han silk 'Chanyu servant' inscription and lapis 4,000 km trade chain.

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🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder

Noin-Ula Kurgans

Xiongnu Empire (~200 BCE – 100 CE) · Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu nomadic empire)

Forested ridge north of Ulaanbaatar concealing over 200 deep shaft-tombs (6–18 m deep) of the Xiongnu steppe empire that confronted Han China.