China's Xixia Imperial Tombs were officially added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on Friday. The inscription brings the total number of World Heritage sites in China to 60.

The Xixia Imperial Tombs are a group of imperial burial sites from the Xixia Dynasty (1038–1227), founded by the Tangut people at the foot of the Helan Mountains in Yinchuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region during the 11th to 13th centuries. Renowned as the "Oriental Pyramids," the tombs are the largest, highest-ranked, and most intact archaeological site from the Xixia period, also known as the Western Xia period, that has survived to the present day.