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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Austrian has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia AFP - Sunday, August 2 ULAN BATOR (AFP) - - Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure. ADVERTISEMENT The 40-year-old amateur archaeologist was in the Gobi over the weekend, helping to unearth Buddhist relics that had been buried for more than seven decades in a remote part of Mongolia. Less than an hour of digging revealed two crates filled with priceless treasure, including rare manuscripts, Buddhist statues and clothing. The relics were once part of a much larger cache of artwork housed at Khamaryn monastery, located 450 kilometres (280 miles) southeast of the capital, Ulan Bator. The monastery was looted and destroyed by order of the communist government in 1937, but not before one monk named Tuduv hid many of the sacred objects. Around 1,500 boxes of treasure had originally been stored at the monastery. Tuduv managed to bury 64 of them. The rest were destroyed. Tuduv maintained the secret of the hidden crates for decades until finally revealing the story to his grandson Zundoi Altangerel. When freedom of religion was allowed with the end of communism in 1990, Altangerel dug up a third of the boxes and placed his findings in a new museum. Eisenriegler, an online media producer, visited the museum in 2008, met Altangerel, and learned that many more boxes still lay hidden in the Gobi. The museum was apparently not safe enough to house all the artefacts so Altangerel left about 20 boxes hidden in the wilderness. His grandfather had made him memorise the exact location of the crates. Eisenriegler convinced the historian to dig up some of the boxes. That happened on Saturday with a joint team of Mongolian and Austrian experts on hand to inspect the items as they came out of the ground. "My ancestors protected these boxes for many years. Now it is my duty to protect them," said Altangerel after the dig. "In the future we plan to dig up the remaining crates." The event was filmed and streamed live on the Internet. Web users who logged on to the site, www.gobi-treasure.com, were encouraged to donate money, which will be given to Altangerel to improve his museum. Viewers watched as the excavators spent 45 minutes digging into the earth, lifted the boxes out of the ground and displayed their contents. The boxes housed a trove of artefacts including bronze statues, holy texts known as sutras and other riches. Altangerel carefully lifted the items out of the boxes and described their meaning. Many were musical instruments, possibly used in Buddhist ceremonies at the monastery. He displayed a small drum that he described as a childs toy. The crates also contained manuscripts. Historians are interested in studying the texts, hoping they will provide clues to daily life at Khamaryn Khiid. "We were deeply impressed with this event.... These treasures were some of the most amazing things that I have seen, especially the statues," Eisenriegler said after the dig. The texts should also go a long way in helping historians better understand the founder of the monastery, Danzan Ravjaa, who lived from 1803 to 1856. The legendary monk wrote hundreds of poems, performed Mongolias first opera and established schools and a museum. Wild legends about his miraculous feats still circulate among the Gobi nomads. "We did this as a way to promote Danzan Ravjaa in the West," said Eisenriegler. "He is worth being studied and known in the West. We also want Mongolians to get to know their history and Danzan Ravjaa is a big part of that." Danzan Ravjaa was best known for writing Mongolias first opera, Saran Khokhoo, or "Moon Cuckoo." He staged the event at various monasteries across the Gobi Desert, raising money for building projects at his monastery. When Danzan Ravjaa died his mummified body was placed inside the White Temple of Khamaryn Khiid, and boxes of treasure were set around the body. The relics remained there until the 1930s when the Mongolian army closed the monastery and arrested most of the monks, charging them with "counter-revolutionary activities." After hiding the boxes, the lama Tuduv escaped the carnage and became a herder. Over the decades he kept an eye on the boxes while preparing his grandson for the responsibility of taking care of the treasures. The monastery reopened in 1991 and is now served by about 20 monks. It has become a popular pilgrimage destination for Mongolians seeking spiritual solace. 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