 A. Deer stone, Monument and tumulus
1. Ondorkhan's human stone
This human stone, called "Gelen" monument by locals, is located 2-3 km from the airport of the province's center. It is like a sitting man wearing traditional hat and hairstyle of if is similar to Chinggis qahan hair on a portrait. This historical human stone that is worshipped local residents by meets you first when you go into Khentii Aimag's territory. It became officially protected by the state in 1998.
2. Sono Mountain's human stone
This human stone that belongs to Tureg Empire period is located on the southeast slope of Sono Monuntain. Childlike picture is carved on the stone board with size of 75:40:15.
3. Ustiin Amnii Dorvoljin Bulsh (Grave)
There are two tumuluses, 10 square-shaped small and big graves and 6 round-shaped small graves. Scientists dug up one them and took out a stone coffin with size of 3:4.
There were jawbones of horse and sheep under the flat stone at the head's part inside the coffin and they were pointed to the top of a rocky hill. Also, there were broken stone cups in the coffin. Due to a determination it was estimated that this grave belongs to the 10-8* century B.C.
4. Khushuun Khuur human stones
Four human stones with square parapets and that are standing in line from the Khomuultei's bridge of Kherien river are facts of the 5 -6th century.
5. Kherlentoono Mountain and its historical places
The mountain, 1578 m above the sea level, is located in the south of Kherien Bayan Ulaan Uul Mountain. There is a stone with scripts that were written by Manjur's qahan Enkhamgalan when he was going to war with Galdanboshgit. Also, there are many human stone graves and tumulus that are under protection of the province and they are believed to belong to the early bronze age.
6. Monuments of Suj steppe
The terrace with some shore that is in the south of Suj steppe. Delgerkhaan somon, is called Khushuutiin Khuur. There are three monuments standing from west to east. First monument: this monument's size is 170:35 and top of this long oval stone is round shaped, it looks like deer stone because it is carved across on the front.
Monument in the middle: it is situated in the southeast of first monument in distance of lkm.this monument with flat offering stones on the right side belongs to the Tureg Empire period. Last monument: it is located 7 km from first monument.
One side of dark brown metal oxide sand stone monument is flattened. Locals call them upper and lower monuments as well as telling legends that they were Chinggis qahan foal rope.
7. Mongol graves around Kherlenbayan Ulaan Mountain
Nearly ten graves were dug out in Dolood subdivision of Delgerkhaan somon. Men from the 12-13* century were buried upright and things like bronze mirror, coins and traditional clothes such hat, deel and boots were found from the graves. Also, a grave of a man was found in Khuiten Khoshuu of Kherlenbayan Ulaan Uul Mountain and that grave was inside four stone parapets under a big flat stone on the 2.5 m heights. Head of the grave was pointed to the east and the body's legs were upright and were wearing Mongolian traditional boots. It was a rare occasion that the corpse's plaited black hair and scalp were still fresh. The grave is considered to be mid-centuries' historical fact.
8. Khanan's Paleolithic Facts
Khanan Mountain, 1400 m above the sea level, is located in the west of Delgerkhaan sompn center and north of Kherlen River. If we see this mountain from a quite far distance we'll notice natural and interesting wall rocks that seem to be laid on each other by people on purpose. There are many graves and artifacts of Stone Age around the mountain. About 100 tools that belong to Paleolithic Age were found from this mountain.
9. Gun Burd's human stone
There are two human stones that stands 100 m away from each other on the southern coast of Gun Burd, small lake in the southeast of Delgerkhaan somon. These human stones are like men without heads sitting cross-legged and they are made of white granite. Size of one of the human stones is 80:62:48 cm and there are three flat stones that prove there were parapets. The other one's size is 76:58:42 cm and there is one flat stone that half of it is under sand. Reddish and gray clay that is used for construction is found near the both human stones and it proves that here were immolation temples.
10. Huns Grave in Duulga Mountain
Dark-colored domed mountain that is situated in the southeast of Jargaltkhaan somon center is called Duulga Mountain. There are 142 Huns graves along the northern slope of small mouth in the southwest of the sunny side of the mountain. Many searchers and scientists studied these graves and put them in proper order. Many things such as vases, swords, iron knives, spearhead, arrowhead, ring of bridle bit and artifacts made of deer horn were found from these graves. These artifacts might be related to some Huns tribe's faith and it is explained with Mongolian tradition of funeral (Mongolians draw the place for funeral with deer horn).
11. Bor Bulagiin Am (Grave)
There are 125 graves that belong to Huns, Tureg and Mongol Empire in the territory of Binder somon. Most of the graves belong to Huns period. Size of the biggest grave, which is square shaped, is 29.2:27.2 m and size of other graves 8-10 m in average.
12. Asgatiin Durvuljin Bulsh (Grave)
There are 6 graves of Bronze Age in the Asgat Hill that is located in the west of Binder somon center. Artifacts of this grave are considered to be the first Mongolian artifacts and one of them is bronze minted horse decoration with size of 4:6.2. These graves are explained in connection with the 7-11th century A.D because there are artifacts such as stud decorations and stone ladle for making minted products.
13. Uppor Olziit(Grave)
There are 24 graves, which are surrounded by many stones in one place at the northern slope of Deed Olziit Mountain, located in the southeast of Kherlen Somon center. Due to the research, the graves were determined that they belong to Bronze Age of eastern part of Mongolia because there were broken vases near the heads of corpses, tracks of fire, red coins on the chest and legs, which scientists find commonly in the graves of that time.
14. Binder's Deer Stone
There are 12 graves, two quite big tumuluses and two deer stones in the north of Oglogch River that flows through Binder Somon territory. One of the deer stones is made sandy shale, its size is 230:42:30 and axe, belt, knife, bow and arrow and 6-7 deer are carved on the stone. The other deer stone's size is 250:31:41cm and made of sandy stone and 7 deer are carved on the whole stone.
15. Oglogch River's artifacts of Stone Age
There is beautiful nature with combination of mountains, steppes, forests, grasses, water and many animals around this place. About 1000 artifacts that belong to Stone Age were found from here.
16. Egiin Jivkhestein (Graves)
There are quite many graves in Jivkhestei, wide mouth that reaches Eg River in the northwest of Batshireet Somon center. When searchers dug up 8 graves around Eg River, Jivkhestei and Norovlin mountain one of the graves were interesting one. A woman and two children were buried together and they were buried in a round sarcophagus with diameter of 5 m and stone pillows were under the heads. Red coins, white watery spirit and horse teeth were next to the bodies that were pointed to the east. An adult person and a child were buried in another one and the same things were found from the grave, thus, they belong to Bronze Agey
17. Yoliin Baits (Grave)
There are 12 round shaped graves and 21 square shaped graves in southern slope of Yoliin Baits. These graves were found with things such as broken vases with patterns on them, three-legged cooking pot and horse skull. Scientists think that these graves had been plundered in past times. Size of graves is 240:350 cm in average and appearances are relatively similar to each other and they are related to Bronze Age.
18. Dobu Mergen's Monument
There is a group of tumuluses at the end of Tenkheleg stream in the northeast of Dadal somon. As legend says they are related to Borte Wolf's 12th generation's people who were Dobu Mergen and Duve Sokhor.
19. Deed Olziit's Graves
There are 24 square-shaped graves in the southern slope of Deed Olziit Mountain, located in Omnodelger somon territory. These graves all have common types of Bronze Age of East Mongolia.
Size of graves is 3.2:4.4 m and there were relatively a few artifacts such as broken vases and red coins inside the graves when they were dug up.
20. Dund Jargalant's Deer Stone
There are 5 deer stones in a valley of JargalantRiver, Omnodelger somon. Deer is described with long slender neck, needle-sharp fin. round-shaped swollen rump, short tail, long slim legs, snout like bird and horns like ornaments. These monuments belong to the 7-9,h century.
21. Togs Ondor's Graves
There are three graves lying next to each other in the confluence of Jargalant and Chandmani Rivers that flow by the southern slope of Togs Ondor Mountain, Omnodelger somon. These graves were researched in 1967. These graves are all square-shaped and parapets were accurately flattened.and no remains were found from the graves. But searchers think that the corpse was lost or people re-buried it after a long time. Artifacts such as clay utensils seem to be related to Kidan Empire's period and Ancient Kidan people used to bury dead people by cremating after leaving them three days in the sun.
22. Khurkh-Jargalant's Graves
There are group of graves with human-shaped stones in the northwest of Khurkh-Jargalant. Omnodelger somon. If we observe those graves carefully first four graves seem to be buried in couple. The first grave of this group graves has fractured stone in front of it that proves that it had a monument before. During excavation, horse teeth and segments of bone were found from this grave. There were artifacts such as segments of fed clay utensil, remains of bones, tracks of fire and burnt coal in the second grave. The third grave's size is 1.95:0.30 m and it looks like human with figures of nose and mouth on it. As a result of excavation, there were track of fire, coal, sheep and goat bones horse bones as well as there were nearly ten white egg-shaped stones put in round and one bigger white oval stone was put like column inside them. Researchers think that these graves are snowcock funerals.
23. Baruun Ar's Huns Grave
A grave that is in Baruun Ar, located in the east of Jargaltkhaan somon, is called, as "Gelen" monument by locals and it is not searched in detail. If we look at its craftsmanship, description and following parapets of immolation it seems to be one of the many Turkish monuments in Mongolia.
24. Duurlig Nars's Huns Grave
Pine forest in the south of Adarga somon is called Duurlig Nars and there are about 200 graves of ancient Huns 1km away from the center of the somon. These Huns graves are weighted down with round-shaped and square-shaped stones and there are vestibules in front of the graves. Diameter of the graves is 20-30 m in average and some of them have 40:40 m square ranges. These graves are hypothesized to be aristocrat's graves.
B. Remains of cities and ruins
I. Setsenkhan's Palace Museum
A base of the khan's palace in Setsenkhan aimag, Khalkh, was first built in 1691 and there are wall fence around the palace and red, white and brown bulwarks inside the palace. There were temples where khan's idols were worshipped for many years in the red bulwark, temples where khan's treasure was kept in the white bulwark and khan's office in the brown bulwark. There 20 temples in the primary Setsenkhan's palace and administration of that time was working in the temples of treasure where rare artifacts were kept, thus, 5 temples remain in the palace today. There are many valuable exhibits that had been used by SetscnKhan in the palace.
We can see couple of satin cups that equals to price of 200 camels, a chair with ornaments and 3.9 kg, 10:10 sized stamp.
2. Setsenkhan's Altan Jan Palace, Gundgaravlin Temple
There are many sand heaps, called monastery bases, that are believed to be remains of Gundgaravlin monastery with 300 years history in the south of Ondorkhaan Somon. This monastery, located on the bank of Kherlen river, was built by an initiative of Khalkh's Sholoi Setsenkhan (1577-1652) and during 1930 there were 6 colleges, 4 tribes, 10 temples, 14 temple clergies, 10 treasuries and 520 lamas. It is recorded that Setsenkhan's Main temple was built in 1660 but there are some fasts that it had been built earlier. There are Setsenkhan's Altan Jan, Immolation house and Ariin Khukh palaces with Chinese style. Ariin Khukh meant hotels for Chinese and Manjur people who used to come to be granted an audience with Setsenkhan and Altan Jan was a palace of ceremony. Few years ago, Gundgaravlin Temple monastery was re-established and now there is a wooden temple where Buddhist ceremony is held.
3. Dashchoinkhorlon Monastery
In 1824, Lama Pantsag initiated this monastery in the south of Batnonrov somon center, former Dachin Beel's administrative unit of Setsenkhan Aimag. There used to be 4 big congregational temples, 6 colleges and 107 lamas in the monastery. It was divided into two parts and each had their artesian spring. During the great political repression of 1938, the monastery was ruined but it was restored later. Today, about 20 monks attend ceremonies in the monastery and it is considered to be main constant temple of the province.
4. Avarga's Ruins
Remains inside the hills of Rashaan Dersni Ukhaa, that is located in the northern terrace of Avarga River river are believed to be Chinggis qahan great mansion "Aurag" and due to historical what now is 'avarga' (Mongolian word for huge, great and champion etc.) was 'aurag' in the past. Size of the remains of Aurag is 1200-500m and remains were divided into four types such as district of handicraft and farming, temples of faith and special walls of palace and mansion.
5. Stone Age Remains around Kherlen
Bayan Ulaan Mountain Remains of StoneAge in SharKhad: there are quite many graves that belong to Bronze Age in the mouths of Kherlenbayan Ulaan Mountain. About 90 artifacts of Stone Age were found in Shar Khad, which is one these mouths and researchers who had been coming lo search those collection had noted that there were plenty of finds. So, you should try to find one of those finds on the ground.
Buga Khairkhan's StoneAge artifacts: nearly 130 artifacts were found from Buga Khairkhan Mountain, located in the northwest of Kherlenbayan Ulaan village.
These linds were made of black, black gray and gray gravel stones. Ikh Khailant's Stone Age artifacts: 116 artifacts of Paleolithic period were found from a place called Ikh Khailant, located in the south of Kherlenbayan Ulaan Mountain. And most of these artifacts were made of gravel stones.
6. Gandanshadablin Monastery
Duke Tserendorj established this monastery in 1795 for the first time and it used to have 4 colleges, 6 temples, 20 treasuries and 411 lamas. It was destroyed in 1937. Darkhan somon.
7. Zuun Kherem (wall)
There are remains of ancient Kidan city 25 km away in the north of Ondorkhaan city. This wall is made of tamped stones and sand, its size is 420:502:510:507 m, it has one gate in each western and southern walls and two gates in each eastern and northern walls. Also, there were water walls outside the city walls and now the walls' height is 1.5-2 m and width is 4-6 m.
8. Rashaan khad's settlement
Rocky part of Binder Mountain that located in the territory of Batshireet Somon is called Binder Eruu or Rashaan Rock. Many finds such as tools that belong to Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Stone Ages, deer stones that belong to Early Bronze Age and graves of Mongolians who were living during the period of Huns and Kidan Empires.
There are many paintings of animals, humans and carvings of tribe stamps that had been used for centuries, Arabia-Persian, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian scripts on the Rashaan rock. After an excavation, it was determined that there are 4 stratums in the soil structure.
There is a monument with deer description on four sides and more one without descriptions 950 m from the rock. And their size is 195:30 cm and there are 12 small and big tumuluses around the monuments.
9. Oglogch'sWall
There are stones walls that are built punctiliously without using clay in the mouth of Daichin Mountain, covered with pine and larch forests and located in the confluence of Bayan and Oglogch rivers, which are in the west of Batshireet Somon center. These walls are called Oglogch Kherem. Width of these walls is nearly lin and there are tracks of two gates in the wall and remains of embarks inside the walls. The remains of wall stones can be seen clearly in the southeastern and eastern walls but not in other walls because they are almost disappeared. Thickness of the wall is 2 in, heights are 2.5-4.5 m in average and 3.1 m in highest parts. I .ocals call a lanky rocky cliff inside the wall as a horse rope of C'hinggis qahan. There are no remains of buildings in the wall but flat terraces, thus, it could be archers' fortification of the 12-13th century.
C. Petroglyph and Inscription
1. Serven Khaalga's inscription
Serven Khaalga is a cone-shaped mountain with small rocks and steppe nature, which is located in the Valley of Kherlen River, Bayankhutag somon.
Big 9 rows inscription on 3:4m rock is determined to Zurchid and there is Nankhiad inscription 18m to the left from the first one. Zurchid inscription was carved in 1195, after Altan Empire's had fought with Tatar. Meaning of this inscription says that while combining Mongol nation Chinggis qahan joined other people in order to defeat his enemies.
This sightseeing became a state protected memorial in 1998.
2. Tunsag Ovoo Shrine
There is a worshipped horse emblem gneiss and granite rocky mountain (1044 m) on the bank of Kerlen River, Batnorov somon. There are many stamp figures such as hoof, ongi, sun, single moon, double moons, counter and claw of bear on the rocks around a shrine on the mountain. Traditionally, in order to brand horses, local residents come to the shrine and choose figure for stamp that firstly noticed in their eyes. Also, there are some tumulus on the southern slope of the mountain and a cave for one person.
3. Tsenkhermandal's Tureg Inscription
Inscription on the rock, called "Burgastain Bichihgt Tsohio", Tsenkhermandal Somon, is called Tureg inscriptions. In general, ancient Tureg inscription is written from the right to the left, but this one is written from down to upside in two rows on the two sides of a stamp. The stamp inside two rows is hypothesized to be personal or tribe's stamp and due to bilateral tradition of Tureg and Mongol tribes, people used to leave stamps in their winter stays and spring camps in order to" show other people that the place belongs to them.
This inscription belongs to 8-9th century and it is an eastern point of all Tureg inscriptions in Mongolia.
4. Salbar mountain's Bichigt Khanan's big and small inscriptions
There is an inscription consists of big and small inscriptions on Bichigt Khanan rock of Salbar Mountains, located in the territory of Murun Somon. Big inscription consists of 3 rows and 17 hieroglyphics and small inscription consists of one row and 7 hieroglyphics. First, middle and last rows are written in red. This inscription proves that Mongolians were highly literate from the ancient times and there were special grammars of writing, depending on a person's rank, position in the society and special rights, rows were written in red.
5. Uzuur Tsokhio's petroglyphs
There are figures of ancient tribes' stamps, horse, cattle and men on the top of a hill, which is called Uzuur Tsohto, Batshireet Somon. There is a picture of six horses led by two-three men on the rock that points to northeast.
D. Monuments
1. Chinggis Qahan's Monument
This monument with height of 11.70 m stands in the east of Dadal Somon and size of its base is 10 m. Chinggis qahan's standing appearance of political and state figure's portray and fire on the monument are carved and top of the emblem is described upper side in the right of Chinggis qahan head. The monument was built in 1962 for the 800th Anniversary o f Chinggis qahan and creators of the monument were accused and became victims of one life and even there was a decision to demolish it.
2. Boorchi's Monument
Nahu the wealthy man lived and pastured his cattle in the vast valley of Khukhuur, located in the south of Batnorov somon. Nahu's only son Boorchi made friends with Chinggis in his childhood when Chinggis was on his way to follow the tracks of his 8 light bay horses that he lost them to robbers. Since then Boorchi had been reliable friend of Chinggis qahan and helped him to unite Mongolian nation, for his exploits, he was awarded to be right hand governor of Chinggis qahan. Therefore, people erected a 3m granite monument in his homeland. At present, the sum has many horses and is famous for its wranglers. In 2003, the somon became leader somon in the country by its horses and people of the sum held a celebration of twenty thousand horses.
3. Bereeven Monastery
This monastery was built with granite in 1777 in the southern slope of Delgerkhan Mountain. The monastery that once had a name Khalkh's Ar Utai Gumben was demolished during the great political repression of Mongolia and today a small monastery is on the base of it. Granite Mountain with larch and pine forest surrounding the monastery is called arvan gurvan Sansar Mountain. Also, there is Buddha Manzushir on the 2:3 m stone that is in the southeast of the monastery.
4. Kherlen's Khuduu Aral
A steppe with size of 600 km2 in the Kherlen Bay is located in the south of Kherlenbayan Ulaan Mountain. The Conqueror Chinggis qahan Great Aurag Mansion was on the bank of Avarga River of this steppe. In this historical place, "The Secret Bureau of Mongolia", which'is a great fact of Mongolian history, was written. Therefore, a monument for this historical fact's 750th Anniversary was erected in 1990. Also, this place was recorded as a national resource.
5. Deluun Boldog
Deluun Boldog is a hill with a monument on the top of it. Dadal somon. Legend says that when Chinggis qahan was born her mother was given a spleen soup and water of the soup was taken from the east lake, thus, east lake was given a name Deluun (Mongolian word for spleen), moreover, Chinggis's body was wallowe in the west lake, thus, west lake was given a name Boldog (bulhdag-mongolian name for wallowing). Therefore, the names of
east and west lakes called together as Deluun Boldog.
6. Artifacts made of Batnorov craftsmanship
Batnorov and Dariganga craftsmanship are the best and most expensive ones among Mongolian Art of smith, specially, in art of silver smith. Batnorov Somon has be en famous for its silversmiths and their creations such as saddle, bridle and cups since long ago. This Somon is home of famous craftsmen like L.Luvsankhorloo, Tojil, Jamyangombo, Gombo nobleman, N.Yondon and Sh.Choinbol. In addition, the craftsmanship of artifacts made by smiths of this place is called as Batnorov craftsmanship. Among these Tojil smith's craftsmanship is the most famous one in the country. Craftmanship of B.Ishjamts who lived in Delgerolziit Mountain of the 1st subdivision of Batnorov somon was famous in 1940 is and authorities and heads of the country used to order his creations. Transferring the method of forging iron into a method of mould casting was an innovation of Mongolian smith and moulds are made of Boshoo's clay through mixing it with crumbs of papyrus.
7. Chinggis's Khermen Road
Shoroon Kherem is one of Mongolian historical facts that are named by Chinggis name such as ''Chiggisiin Dalan"', Chinggisiin Zam" and "Chinggisiin Kherem". Shoroon Kherem is a name of separate walls that go through several sums of Khentii province and other provinces. Shoroon zam starts from the west of Bayan-Adarga somon and goes through Khurai Davaa, Nariin Khundii, Saikhanii Khundii. Saintsagaan lake, Ulziin Ondor Dov of Norovlin Somon, Khermen Khudag of Bayandun somon, Dornod province, territories of Tsagaan ovoo, Sergelen and Gurvan Zagal somon and goes into the territory of China. Length of the wall is 500-600 km and there are many small sand walls with length of 40-50 m. There are no tracks that people were living inside them but there were finds of some broken cups. Researchers hypothesize this wall in many ways, was it a border of some ancient tribe? Or maybe Ogoodei Khan built it to prevent gazelles from fleeing to land of his other brothers.
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