Mongolian archaeologists unearthed about 270 items dating back to the 6th and 7th C.E. centuries in Bulgan, a province in northern Mongolia.

A team of five Mongolian archaeologists conducted the excavation from 1-10 May. They discovered ancient walls, burial mounds, tombs and rock paintings at the site, which is near a burial mound unearthed in a joint expedition with Kazakh archeologists in 2011.

The team also unearthed a broken stone statue of a person as well as a statue with Chinese inscriptions.

‘Mongolia is an open-air museum of ancient nomadic culture,’ A. Ochir, a senior archaeologist with the UNESCO-sponsored International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations, said. ‘We hope that these discoveries will attract more tourists to Mongolia,’ he added.