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CategoriesBurial mounds
Earth heaped over the dead: the most widespread monument humans ever built.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Early Saka / Arzhan-Chemurchek transition · Early Saka (Sakae) pastoralists
730 BCE Early Saka royal kurgan (100 m) with 500+ gold appliques and 17 horses, earliest monumental Saka tomb in East Kazakhstan.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Tasmola/Scythian-Saka (9th–5th c. BCE) · Tasmola (Saka-Scythian) steppe pastoralists
8-m-high 800 BCE Tasmola royal mound (70 m wide) with 4,500 golds and 30 satellite 'moustache' stone alignments.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Early Saka 670 BCE plus Sarmatian reuse · Early Saka western + Sarmatian intrusive
110-m giant Early Saka kurgan (670 BCE) at Baykara on Tobol terrace, westernmost Saka royal mound with Sarmatian reuse.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Early Saka 8th-5th c. BCE · Early Saka Tarbagatai
680 BCE Early Saka golden warrior kurgan (4,300 golds) in ranked 280-mound cemetery at Eleke Sazy, Tarbagatai.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Saka (400–200 BCE) · Saka (Issyk–Tasmola, East Scythian)
Six-meter stone mound on the Talgar fan where Kemal Akishev in 1969 recovered an undisturbed side cist containing an 18-year-old Saka prince clad in 4,000 gold plaques depicting leopard, ibex and…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Scythian Pazyryk phase (~400–250 BCE) · Saka/Pazyryk (East Kazakh nomadic)
Seventy burial mounds in the Bukhtarma valley of the Altai where Canadian–Kazakh teams uncovered horse sacrifices wearing antlered ibex-horn masks transforming them into griffins.
