Inner Mongolia Museum
The museum displays a large number of fossils from paleontological eras, including dinosaurs from across the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. There are also 44,000 relics bearing witness to life in ancient times. Mongolian female clothes from different places and statues as well as religious relics are the biggest attractions for most visitors to the museum.
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Tuchengzi Site in Helingeer
Located 12 kilometers to the north of Helingeer county in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Tuchengzi Site is the ruins of ancient cities from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Since 1960, excavations of the ruins and dozens of tombs in peripheral areas have been carried out. Gold accessories, ceramics, and murals dating to different periods between the Han and the Tang dynasties have provided important information for the study of the history and geography of central Inner Mongolia including economic and cultural exchanges between ethnic groups.
Yunzhong Prefecture Ruins
Located in Hohhot city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Yunzhong Prefecture Ruins date from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) to the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and the Tang Dynasty (618-907). At the site of the bell and drum tower in the central area of the city, a gilded bronze Buddha statue dating to 484 from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) was unearthed.
The discovery and excavation of the Yunzhong Prefecture Ruins provide eloquent evidence for the study of the history of the Mongolian Plateau, and the site was rated as a national foremost protected cultural heritage site in 2013.