A Tomb of the Turkic Period in Northern Mongolia

Year 1966, Volume: 30 Issue: 118, 197 - 204, 20.04.1966

Istvan Erdélyı

Abstract

In 1963 Hungarian archaeologists in collaboration with scholars from the Institute of Historical Studies of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences had their fourth season of excavations in Northern Mongolia. Work was carried out in the valley of the Huni river in the Hangai mountains, to be more precise, in the district of Erdenemandal Sumun, in the county of Archangai Aimak, the centre of which is the town of Cecerleg. The river belongs to the system of the Selenga river. On a site about 90 km (by air) north of Cecerleg, on the terrace of the left bank of the river, we succeeded in excavating the kurghan of a warrior of the East Turkic Empire. After leaving the cooperative centre of Ih Tamir we followed the valley of the Tamir for a while, then reached the valley of the Huni to the north. On the directions of C. Dorjsuren we found the site of excavations made in 1956 on the bank of the Bartın Sûdû, a righthand tributary of the Huni river. The finds made nearby by C. Dorj suren in 1956 were published only in Mongolia. As they belong to the same period I should like to say a few words about them. In one of the three small stone kurghans on the Bartın Sûdû, he found a wooden box and a miniature belt with gold mountings.

Keywords

Institute of Historical Studies of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Archaeology, Turkic Period, Tomb Architecture, Khangai Mountains