Por-Bashyn
Por-Baschyn ( Russian Пор-Бажын ) is an almost rectangular ruin area on an island in the 1300 m high lake Tere-Chol in Koschuun ( Rajon ) Tere-Cholski in the Tuva Republic in the federal district of Siberia in the Asian part of Russia , about 40 km from the border with Mongolia . It is assigned to the Uyghur Kaganat and is dated to the eighth century AD.
meaning
It is believed that the complex was built as a Manichaean monastery. In 2020, the year 777 was determined as the year of construction by means of radiocarbon dating of wooden finds . At that time, Tengri Bögü Khan ruled in the Uighur Empire .
investment
The 215 × 162 m complex with a labyrinth-like inner wall structure covers almost the entire area of the island on which it lies. It still rises up to 12 m in height. The outer walls are over 10 m thick. The buildings were made of adobe bricks .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Margot Kuitems, Andrei Panin, Andrea Scifo, Irina Arzhantseva, Yury Kononov, Petra Doeve, Andreas Neocleous, Michael Dee :: radiocarbon based approach capable of subannual precision Resolves the origins of the site of Por-Bajin . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . tape 117 , no. 25 , June 8, 2020, p. 14038–14041 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1921301117 ( pnas.org [accessed July 9, 2020]).
- ↑ ARCHEOLOGY. Fortress of Solitude - DER SPIEGEL 50/2010. P. 115 , accessed on June 9, 2020 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ' N , 97 ° 23' E