
Western Xia the disappeared kingdom
Western Xia Mausoleum (Chinese: 西夏王陵) is located at the foot of the Helan Mountains (賀蘭山) in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (寧夏回族自治區) of northwestern China. Western Xia was a kingdom that existed between 1038 and 1227, about which little is currently known.