Ikh Tamir Village

Ikhtamir Village (soum) is located 510 km from Ulaanbaatar city, in Arkhangai Province of Central Mongolia. Today, the soum has a population of average 5000, has a territory of 4.8 thousand km2, and the number of households is 1300. Arkhangai province is home for Mongolian nomadism and located in the heart of the Khangai range. It’s composed of mountains, steppes, and plains. The province of Arkhangai has many touristic places such as Taikhar Rock and Khorgo Terkh National Park, great Chuluut River canyon etc… Taikhar Rock is located in the village of Ikh Tamir, south of the Khoid Tamir River. It’s a big 20-metres (66 feet) high granite rock, covered with 150 writings in many different languages and dating back from many different periods (runic, Sogd, Uyghur, Mongolian, Nangiad, Tibetan writings). The oldest one is the runic writing, dating back from the Turkish period of the 6th and 7th centuries.