UNECSO officially announced on Thursday that it has inscribed Mongolian ankle bone shooting on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Previously, UNESCO inscribed Mongolian calligraphy and Mongolian traditional craftsmanship of the Mongol ger, along with its associated customs, on the list of  Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and the priceless intellectual heritage, the great treatise “Ganjur” as part of the world's Documentary Heritage.

Mongolia has contributed the following cultural, documentary and natural heritages to UNESCO so far:

Mongolian heritage inscribed as World Cultural Heritage:

 • Orkhon Valley cultural landscape (2004)

• Petroglyphic complexes of the Mongolian Altai (2011)

World Natural Heritage contributions:

• Uvs Nuur Basin (2003)

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity:

• Traditional music of the morin khuur  (2008)

• Urtiin Duu, traditional folk long song (2009)

• Naadam, Mongolian traditional festival (2010)

• Mongolian traditional art of khццmei (2010)

• Eagle hunting, also known as falconry (2010) (along with 12 countries of Asia, Europe and the Middle East)

• Traditional craftsmanship of the Mongol ger and its associated customs (2013)

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding:

• Mongol tuuli, Mongolian epic (2009)

• Mongol biyelgee, traditional folk dance (2009)

• Traditional music of the tsuur (2009)

• Folk long song performance technique of limbe performances – circular breathing (2011)

• Mongolian calligraphy (2013)

World Documentary Heritage:

• Altan Tovch by Luvsandanzan (2011)

• Mongol Shunkhan Danjur (2011)

• Ganjur, written in nine precious stones (2013)