An exeptional archeological site, in the heart of a green valley of Arkhangaï : Tsatsiin Ereg. It's the place that the Monegasque's archeological mission choosed to develop its research and try to penetrate the mysteries of the ancient nomadic civilisations.
A jewel of archeologia lodged at side of hill : sepultures, deer stones, cave paints, give to Tsatsiin Ereg a special dimension : a link between past and present...You'll nearly hear the gallop of the Khunus warriors horde.
1500 years before our era, lived on the actual mongolian territory unified tribes of nomadic riders with a pastoral culture. Did this people erect and sculpt this stones as offering to the spirits of the steppe? Is it just a sepulture zone delimitation? Or was it the warlike tribes Khunus and Xiongnu, mentioned in the old chinese texts? Those conqueror peoples used to spread panic is the whole Central Asia, and the great wall was built to protect the chinese empire from the assault of the Xiongnu hordes.
You will also discover the petroglyphes that adorn the basaltic rocks on the top of the valley. Drawings melting hunting scenes with wolwes, goats, stags, huntings with bows, in different styles...was simple everyday's representations, or some symbolic linked to a culte?
Questions to ask, ideas to share, with the archeologues that will be there to guide you to the heart of the past.
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| | | | Jérôme MAGAIL |  | | Expedition Director |
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