Mongolian

Scientists uncovered a elegantly carved saddle made from several pieces of birch wood from an ancient cave in Mongolia. Credit: William Taylor/ CU BoulderIn April 2015, an ancient cave burial at Urd Ulaan Uneet, located in the high Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, was plundered by thieves. Upon their arrest, police discovered various artifacts, including a finely crafted saddle composed of multiple birch wood pieces.Now, in a new study, researchers from Mongolia collaborating with University of Colorado Boulder…

Drone photo of Khaltaryn Balgas (MA21). Credit: Journal of Field Archaeology (2023). DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2295198 A team of archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, working with a colleague from the National University of Mongolia, has conducted a study of the 405-km wall system in eastern Mongolia known as the Mongolian Arc in order to learn more about its history and purpose. In their paper…

Mongolian music has a long history of producing captivating vocal styles. The best-known is throat singing – a reverberating technique that produces multiple pitches during a single phrase. Raw, earthy and a predominantly male pursuit, throat singing is more of a droning instrumental sound than a means of conveying lyrics. For the Ulaanbaatar-born singer Enkhjargal Erkhembayar, AKA Enji, there is another side to her country’s song – a delicate, dexterous vocal that sits between jazz improvisation and the ceremonial long…

The human predilection for phallic imagery is well documented—just look at the scrawling in any high school locker room. A pendant recently found in northern Mongolia suggests our species has been artistically recreating the penis for at least 42,000 years. According to researchers behind a study of the pendant, published this week in Nature Scientific Reports, the 4.3-centimeter piece of carved graphite is the “earliest-known sexed anthropomorphic…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has virtually met Mongolian Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene about the automaker making a potential investment in the copper-rich country. Mongolia is a resource-rich country, including some rare earth metals as well as copper, which can be useful in the electric vehicle industry. Rio Tinto is building one of the largest copper mines in the world that will eventually produce more than 500,000 metric tons of copper annually. Tesla has been increasingly working directly…

An early draft of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to be auctioned at Sotheby’s reveals a different working title for the 1975 hit previously unknown to the band’s fans and scholars.On one page of 15 pages of early drafts for the rock opera, songwriter Freddie Mercury wrote the words “Mongolian Rhapsody” near the top – but crossed out the first word and wrote “Bohemian” above it, the New York Times reports.The draft is among a cache of Mercury’s belongings – including his furniture, stage costumes and drafts for other Queen hits…

Dust aerosol concentration (contours with interval of 20000 kg/m2) caused by the Mongolian cyclone and its corresponding standardized value of the Himawari-8 red channel (shading; red coloring denotes dust). Credit: Cholaw Bueh From the 13th to the 16th of March 2021, an extremely strong dust storm struck Mongolia and northern China successively, causing 590 herdsmen to disappear and 16 people to die in Mongolia. When the…