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.
Inside the scenic area of Western Xia Mausoleum, you can see the signages written in Tangut (党項) script. Tangut script was a logographic writing system, used for writing the extinct language of Western Xia. The characters are similar in appearance to Chinese characters, but the methods of forming characters are significantly different.
Most of the written records and architecture of Western Xia were destroyed, so the founders and history of the empire remained obscure until 20th-century research in the West and in China.
There is a museum displaying the funerary artifacts found in this area, you can see an Angel and Markara.
The waxworks of the museum look quite coarse, but they reappear the sceneries of ancient Western Xia, tourists will know more about this mysterious ancient kingdom.
Western Xia occupied the area around the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊), a stretch of the Silk Road, it made significant achievements in literature, art, music, and architecture. The kingdom was destroyed by the Mongols in 1227, most of its written records and architecture were eradicated.
