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AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ U.S. Ambassador Jonathan Addleton participated in the conference organized by the Centre for Mongolian Historical and Cultural Heritage at the “Secret History of Mongolia” camp to discuss the “Tulai-1” project funded by U.S. State Department Special Fund for Cultural Preservation in 2007.
This project was undertaken to preserve the extensive and historically important archaeological resources, representative of many historical periods, in the Tuul river basin.
The Tuul river archaeological sites provide a rich historical record of Mongolia’s cultural heritage. Mongolia is fortunate to have such extensive archaeological assets. Indeed, an eminent archaeologist once said that there is no place on Earth as rich in archaeological memorials as Mongolia, both on the surface and beneath the ground. His statement is supported by the many discoveries of Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Hun tombs in the basins of the Kherlen and Tuul rivers during the last five decades. There are few other places in the world where so many cultural and historical resources from various epochs of human civilization can be found in such a comparatively small area.
The conference on the results of the project was organized on December 5. The Ambassador Addleton gave a short speech on the importance of the project’s research and the efforts to protect Mongolia’s cultural heritage from the Stone Age through the Bronze Age to the era of the Great Mongol Empire.
S.Batbayar
This project was undertaken to preserve the extensive and historically important archaeological resources, representative of many historical periods, in the Tuul river basin.
The Tuul river archaeological sites provide a rich historical record of Mongolia’s cultural heritage. Mongolia is fortunate to have such extensive archaeological assets. Indeed, an eminent archaeologist once said that there is no place on Earth as rich in archaeological memorials as Mongolia, both on the surface and beneath the ground. His statement is supported by the many discoveries of Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Hun tombs in the basins of the Kherlen and Tuul rivers during the last five decades. There are few other places in the world where so many cultural and historical resources from various epochs of human civilization can be found in such a comparatively small area.
The conference on the results of the project was organized on December 5. The Ambassador Addleton gave a short speech on the importance of the project’s research and the efforts to protect Mongolia’s cultural heritage from the Stone Age through the Bronze Age to the era of the Great Mongol Empire.
S.Batbayar
