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  2. Sculpture of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Works of sculpture have been crafted in Mongolia since prehistoric times. Bronze Age megaliths known as deer stones depicted deer in an ornamented setting. Statues of warriors, the Kurgan stelae, were created under Turkic rule from the 6th century CE, and later started to bear inscriptions in a phonetic script, the Orkhon script, which were deciphered only in the 1980s.

  3. Equestrian statue of Genghis Khan - Wikipedia

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    The statue is symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace. It is on top of the Genghis Khan Statue Complex, a visitor centre, itself 10 metres (33 ft) tall, with 36 columns representing the 36 khans from Genghis to Ligdan Khan. It was designed by sculptor D. Erdenebileg and architect J. Enkhjargal and erected and opened in 2008 to honor ...

  4. List of World Heritage Sites in Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Mongolia ratified the convention on 2 February 1990. [3] Mongolia has six sites on the list. The first site, the Uvs Nuur Basin, was listed in 2003. The most recent site, the Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites, was listed in 2023. Two sites are natural and are shared with Russia.

  5. Mausoleum of Genghis Khan - Wikipedia

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    A detail from Strahlenberg's 18th-century map of "Great Tartary", showing "Karakoschun, or, the Tomb of the Great and Famous Genghis Khan" in the southern "Ordus". After Genghis Khan died in or around Gansu [7] on 12 July AD 1227, [8] his remains were supposedly carried back to central Mongolia and buried secretly and without markings, in accordance with his personal directions.

  6. Category:Sculptures in Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Statues in Mongolia (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 15:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. Kharkhorin Rock - Wikipedia

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    Kharkarin Rock, smaller stone monument Close up of the stone monument A similar, newer monument. Kharkhorin Rock, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock, is a large statue of a penis raised on a platform on the steppe, located near Erdene Zuu Monastery (part of the World Heritage Site entitled Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape) in Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai Province of Mongolia.