Kutluk-Kagan Memorial Complex And Stele With Inscriptions (Preliminary scientific report of the joint expedition "Nomgon-2019, 2022" of the International Turkic Academy and the Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences)

In 2019 and 2022, the International Turkic Academy and the Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences began to conduct joint archaeological studies and the first excavations in 9 ancient memorial complexes of the ancient Turkic era in the Nomgon valley of the Khashaat sum of the Arkhangai aimag of Mongolia. During the excavations carried out in the Nomgon-2 memorial complex, it was found that this complex was dedicated to Kutluk-Kagan (Elteris-Kagan), the founder of the II Turkic Kaganate, who ruled in 682-692, the father of the famous Bilge-Kagan and Kultegin. The head and lower part of a stone statue of a kagan, two parts of a head of a stone statue, two statues of a ram, statues of a lion with two cubs and a number of other artifacts, such as clay roof covering, bricks, a cubic stone with a hole in the middle, and kagan tamga "eshir" (ashina) on balbals were found in the complex. A special news for turkology world is the discovery of a stele with inscriptions. There, during archaeological excavations, for the first time was discovered the upper part of the stele with the image of two wolves and floral patterns, as well as the lower part with fragments of ancient Turkic texts written in runic, Sogdian and Brahmi alphabets.