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Multi-periodSite Name: Tibetan Kings´TombsCountry: China
NOTE: This site is 101.061 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Qonggyai Nearest Village: Qonggyai
Latitude: 29.017261N Longitude: 91.682032E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Tibetan Kings´Tombs are 9 large burial mounds with square flat roofs, and a height of 10-30 m. Their shape is similar to massifs.
They were the tombs of Zanpu (Tibetan King) probably of the 7th century.
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