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Men in traditional Mongolian costumes (deel) before starting of a local Naadam festival in Kharkhorin National costume A deel ( Mongolian : ᠳᠡᠪᠡᠯ /дээл [deːɮ] ; Buryat : дэгэл [dɛɡɛɮ] ) is an item of traditional clothing commonly worn by Mongols and can be made from cotton , silk , wool , or brocade .
The Silver Deer of Bilge Qaghan (Mongolian: Билгэ хааны онгоноос олдсон Мөнгөн буга [1]) is a 7th- or 8th-century [2] silver and silver-gilt artifact extracted from the tomb of Bilge Qaghan, the burial complex of the fourth Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate.
Inalchuq accused them of being Mongolian spies and arrested them. [2] There may in fact have been spies in the caravan; [ 1 ] however, Inalchuq may have also been provoked by having been called Inalchuq rather than the less familiar Ghayir-Khan by one of the members of the caravan, [ 1 ] or he may have simply wanted a pretext to seize the ...
The Chilek silver bowl ("Čilek bowl") is a silver bowl found in the area of Samarkand, and considered as the "best known specimen of Hephthalite art". More specifically, the bowl seems to belong to the Alchon Huns , south of the Hindu-Kush , during the last third of the 5th century CE. [ 1 ]
Fragments of the Sino-Mongolian inscription of 1342 were found embedded in different places in the walls of Erdene Zuu Monastery, thereby giving further proof that the monastery was largely built using stones and bricks of Karakorum. A chief feature inside the main palace was the Silver Tree made by William of Paris. [citation needed]
The skull cup from Gough's Cave. A skull cup is a cup or eating bowl made from an inverted human calvaria that has been cut away from the rest of the skull.The use of a human skull as a drinking cup in ritual use or as a trophy is reported in numerous sources throughout history and among various peoples, and among Western cultures is most often associated with the historically nomadic cultures ...
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.
The Hephthalite silver bowl is a bowl discovered in the Swat region of Gandhara, Pakistan, and now in the British Museum. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It dates from 460 to 479 CE, and the images represent two different Huna tribes, suggesting a period of peaceful coexistence between the Kidarites and the Alchons .