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Survey since 2017 of a northern wall in Mongolia known as the "Chinggis road" (Mongolian: Чингисийн Хэрэм) stretching across Russia China and Mongolia along 746Km. Since 2020 survey of the Sothern long walls in China and Mongolia.
This web site includes background information, maps, documents, articles, and images to assist the survey team.
NEWS
June 2020 - We are pleased to announce that our article was finally published:
Shelach-Lavi, G., Wachtel, I., Golan, D., Batzorig, O., Amartuvshin, C., Ellenblum, R., & Honeychurch, W. (2020). Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries AD. Antiquity, 94(375), 724-741.
Links - ANTIQUITY at Cambridge.org: article Online, article PDF, article Supplementary data, article GIS map of the wall and all structures.
August 2019 - Our second season report (Internal).
February 2019 - The article was accepted by ANTIQUITY Cambridge University Press.
August 2018 - Our first initial report (PDF 1.3MB) of the survey which took place during summer 2018 in east Mongolia.
June 2020 - We would like to congratulate our colleague Prof. Kradin for his newly published book on the wall (19.6.2020)
Kradin writes in his book: "After our studies, the wall attracted the interest of our Israeli colleagues. In 2018–19, a joint Mongolian-Israeli expedition headed by G. Shelach examined the wall in Mongolia and prepared a report about their studies (Shelach et al. 2019). Finally, in 2019, as part of the mega-grant “Dynamics of Peoples and Cultures of Inner Asia,” we made an expedition to verify some data and started to write this book."
The project's team.
Map of the survey region.
Example of a drone picture of a wall section and associated fort.
Drone picture of a fort and a circle structure.
Our camp at day time.
Our camp at night.
A herd of horses.
Operating the drone.
Survey field documentation.
Survey work.
Mapping of sites.
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