Western Xia mausoleums

Occupying an area of some 50 km2, the Western Xia mausoleums at the foot of the Helan Mountains in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwestern China includes nine imperial mausoleums and 250 tombs of imperial relatives and officials. This burial complex lies some 40 km westward from capital city of the Western Xia, the Xingqing fu or Xingqing, what is modern-day Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.Some 17,000 m2 have so far been excavated, and efforts are underway to secure and preserve the remains of this poorly understood era.