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Metal Detecting Finds in Mongolia

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Mongolia — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Mongolia

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Famous findLate 1st century BC to early 1st century AD · found 1924

Noin-Ula: Mongolian royal tombs found by a gold prospector, full of silk, lacquer and silver

Mongolia · ArtefactsFF 289

Around 1912 a gold-mining prospector in northern Mongolia dug into what he thought were old mine workings. They were the tombs of Xiongnu nobles, frozen and waterlogged for 2,000 years, preserving silks, embroidered hangings, Chinese lacquer and silver plaques.