 Khoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Art site | |
  Khoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Art location in Mongolia | |
| Location | Mankhan District |
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| Region | Khovd,Mongolia |
| Coordinates | 47°20′51″N91°57′21″E / 47.34750°N 91.95583°E /47.34750; 91.95583 |
TheKhoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Paintings (North Blue Cave Rock Paintings) are found inMankhan Sum,Khovd Province,Mongolia.
Originating in thePaleolithic period, the rock art found in Khoit Tsenkher Cave includes symbols and animal forms painted from the walls up to the ceiling.[1] Stags, buffalo, oxen, ibex, lions, Argali sheep, antelopes, camels, elephants, ostriches, and other animal pictorials are present, often forming apalimpsest of overlapping images. The paintings appear brown or red in color, and are stylistically similar to otherPaleolithicrock art from around the world but are unlike any other examples in Mongolia.
This site was added to theUNESCOWorld Heritage Tentative List on August 1, 1996 in the Cultural category.[2]