Friday, 31st August 2007 (2305 views)

A team of South Korean and Mongolian archaeologists have uncovered what is only the second golden artefact to be found in excavations in Mongolia.

According to the English-language Mongolian newspaper the UB Post, the team has been excavating at Duurlig Nars in Bayan Adargana soum of Khentii aimag for ten years.

Numerous tombs have been discovered, with one of them containing a gold necklace with a pendant bearing a floral decoration, believed to date from between the third and the first century BC.

"The biggest of the tombs ... had bones of 12 horses and of about ten sheep and goats. At a depth of eight meters, we found a wooden parapet and a red-walled coffin decorated by thin golden plates," said D Tseveendorj, director of the archaeological institute of the Science Academy of Mongolia, according to the newspaper.

As well as the bones, the gold necklace was found inside along with a silver spoon.

Khentii is known as the homeland of Genghis Khan, according to the country's tourist board.

 

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