Moidams in Assam

March 9, 2023

As per recent news, Moidams in Charaideo in Assam meet UNESCO technical requirements for World Heritage Site status.
- The ‘Moidams’ were first included in the tentative list of Unesco World Heritage Sites in April 2014.
Charaideo has more than 90 moidams.
Moidams (or Maidams) represent late medieval (13th-19th century CE) mound-burial tradition of Tai Ahoms in Assam, which lasted almost 600 years (1228–1826).
Spread over an acre under the Patkai hills, the burial grounds house 42 tombs of kings and queens.
Ahom kings used to be buried along with their treasures and articles of their day-to-day use.
Maidam consists of three major features: A vault or chamber, hemispherical earthen mound, an octagonal boundary wall.