Abstract: During the 2019 summer field season, a team of international researchers led by archaeologists Dr. Julia Clark and Dr. J. Bayarsaikhan worked tirelessly in challenging conditions to salvage what they could from a looted cemetery in northern Mongolia. A series of ridges containing over 70 Mongol era (roughly 600-800 years ago) burials had been […]

In his lecture, Professor Batsaikhan Ookhnoi reconsiders the role of the 8th Jebtsundamba – in rough terms, the Mongolian equivalent of Tibet’s Dalai Lama at the time – in engineering the national independence of Mongolia from the Qing Empire in 1911. The facts and interpretation of this event are particularly important since, as asserted in […]