🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Cedar Plank House Remnant West — Steppe (Astana)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Cedar Plank House Remnant West in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) kurgan attributed to Medieval culture.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Issyk kurgan
The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Uygarak Kurgan Field (Lower Syr Darya Sakas – Inkardarya Delta)
Early Saka (Uygarak) to Sauromatian · Lower Syr Darya Sakas (Uygarak culture)
Inkardarya delta type-site: 70 low mounds (8-32 m) with standing-stag plaques spanning 300 years.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Akbeit Kurgan (Akmola Tasmola-Ridge Ancestor)
Tasmola (Early Saka) · Northern Tasmola network
Northern Tasmola horseshoe kurgan 55 km south of Astana: 42-m mound with 18-m mustache avenue to solstice.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas III Upper Terrace Ili Petroglyphs
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II South Bend Ili Petroglyphs
Late Bronze to Tibetan Buddhism · Andronovo, Turkic Kipchak, Oirat-Mongol Buddhist
South bend of Ili River 400 m south of main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha triad with vertical palimpsest.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Kyrykoba Kurgan Field — Sarmatian Royal Cemetery (Aktobe, West Kazakhstan)
Early to Middle Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian, 500–350 BCE) · Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka transitional)
40+ Sarmatian royal mounds (5th–4th c BCE) with 820-g gold torque and Amazon warrior — West Kazakh Ural steppe.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Shilikty North Kurgan (Chilikty North Royal Terrace)
Early Saka (7th–6th c. BCE) · Early Saka (Shilikty facies)
Shilikty north: 5 early royal kurgans (62 m) 2.2 km north of Golden Ridge, Zaisan valley 820 m.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Korgantas Tasmola Kurgan 1 — Karaganda Tasmola Type-Site
Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola culture, 8th–5th c BCE) · Tasmola (early Saka, Central Kazakhstan)
Tasmola royal dromos kurgan (760–520 BCE) 45 m — eponymous early Saka mound with 200 gold plaques.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Aktobe Tortoba East Satellite Kurgans (Kobda District Eastern Cluster)
Early Sarmatian (600–400 BCE) · Sarmatian / Prot. Sauromatian
Eastern satellite cluster 10 km east of Tortoba core (Kobda District, Aktobe, 165 m) with 12 kurgans 18–52 m diam, 2–6 m high on low Emba-Uil interfluve steppe.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Kyzyl-Tobe North Kurgan (Uil River North Frontier Outpost)
Middle Sarmatian · Sarmatian frontier
Kyzyl-Tobe north outpost: 18-m isolated kurgan with rampart overlooking Uil River ford.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Taldy-2 Satellite Kurgan (Tasmola South Annex)
Tasmola Early Saka (5th c. BCE) · Tasmola
Taldy-2 satellite: 24-m Tasmola maiden kurgan 800 m south of royal Arystan, Karaganda steppe.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday North Boralday River Terrace Kurgans (River Boralday Terrace North Bank)
Saka (520–280 BCE) · Saka Tigrakhauda
North bank terrace of Boralday River (Boraldy) 2.1 km north of park (770 m) with 5 mounds 24–52 m diam on 8-m river terrace scarp.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient city
Taraz Ancient City Site
Western Turkic Khaganate to Karakhanid–Qara Khitai · Sogdian / Turkic / Karakhanid
Core Silk Road city at Talas River on northern branch, flourishing 6th–12th c. as capital of Turkic Kaganate and later Karakhanid.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II Upper Cliff Petroglyphs
Late Bronze to Dzungar · Wusun, Turkic, Mongol-Oirat, Tibetan Buddhist
Upper limestone cliff 35 m above the Ili left bank at Tamgaly-Tas (Kapchagai), 800 m upstream from the famous 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist panels.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Jankent
Jankent (Dzhankent, Yangikent, Eni-Kent, Djanikand, Yenikent, Yanikand, all meaning New Town in Turkic; al-Karyat al-hadith, Dihi Naw, Shehrkent) is a deserted town east of the Aral Sea in modern…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Aktobe Batpak Kurgan Field (Batpak Steppe Line)
Sauromatian to Early Sarmatian (700–400 BCE) · Sauromatian
Linear alignment of 15 kurgans over 2.8 km on Ilek River upper terrace Batpak steppe (190 m) with diameters 16–38 m, heights 1.2–3.5 m, spaced 120–220 m (Sauromatian ‘street’ necropolis).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II Ili River Bend North Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Oirat · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Oirat
North river-bend schist slabs at the Kurta confluence on the Ili, 1.2 km north of the main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha, comprising 90 panels on flood-scoured boulders and low cliff.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to early nomadic (~2000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Andronovo, Karasuk, Saka and Turkic nomadic
Arid gorge in the Chu-Ili massif preserving five major groups with over 5,000 petroglyphs, famed for anthropomorphic sun-headed figures up to 80 cm tall with rayed haloes.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly II North Outcrop Petroglyphs
Late Bronze to Saka-Wusun · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun
Isolated granite outcrop 600 m north of Tamgaly Main Gorge, a whale-backed ridge exposing 22 vertical panels with 180+ peckings contrasting valley-floor schist.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Dongtalede
Dongtalede (Ch: 东塔勒德) is an archaeological site in Xinjiang with numerous artifacts riminescent of the Scytho-Siberian art of Central Asia. It is dated to the 9th-7th century BCE.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Zhetytobe South Kurgan Cluster (Seven Hills South Ridge)
Early Saka to Wusun Transition · Saka–Wusun
Zhetytobe south: 6 adobe-ring Saka kurgans 3 km south of Seven Hills core, Turkestan Ridge.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Tagisken — Kurgan Field North Mound (Kyzylorda)
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Tagisken — Kurgan Field North Mound (Kyzylorda) in Kyzylorda, Tagisken, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to Scythian / S…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Eshkiolmes Petroglyphs
The Petroglyphs of Eshkiolmes (Kazakh: Ешкіөлмес петроглифтері, romanized: Eşkiölmes petroglïfteri) are located throughout the Eshkiolmes mountain range in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.