Three Mongilian burials of three different periods found in Khatny Bulag

The expedition team organized within the project “From the Secret in Khatny Bulag” excavated and explored 3 burials belong to Middle Age Mongolian Grave Culture but with different parts of this period near the oasis Khatny Bulag in Khatanbulag Soum, Dornogovi Aimag from 2016 to 2018. The first grave or Grave №4, Khond is the burial with a single finger and a mirror used by the deceased during her alive period as the representation of the deceased and as the mirror design feature shows it belonged to the period before the IX-X centuries AD. The second burial or Grave №1, Baruun Shivee represents the burials that belong to the XIII century AD and it is special on the bronze mirror registered by an official in the Qin period and with funeral rituals feature clearly. The third burial or Grave №3, Zuun Shivee belongs to the comparatively later period, in other words, to the period from the XYII century to the XYIII century AD, the time of Buddhism introduction into Mongolia as the blue and white porcelain cup of the Ming period and “Lion sleeping position” of the deceased like the Buddha during his death show. The third burial is the last unusual example of the earth burial of the Middle Age period and appearance of burial on the ground in connection with the Buddhism introduction into Mongolia. Such burial has not excavated yet and can be considered as a science discovery that widens Mongolian traditional funeral ritual. It is special that the burial of this period was discovered in Mongolia firstly. These burials excavated near the Khatny Bulag will make big contributions in the Mongolian burial study.

Dornogovi Aimag, Khatny Bulag, a tomb from before period of the Mongol Empire, mirror of the Tang period, Tomb of the period Mongol Empire, mirror of the Qin period, Tomb of the later period of the Mongol Empire, blue and white porcelain cup, lion position

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