🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Cholpon-Ata North Petroglyph Field
Early Nomadic to Early Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic (Issyk-Kul basin pastoralists)
North sector of 42-ha Cholpon-Ata lake-shore museum with Saka snow-leopard petroglyphs.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Cholpon-Ata Petroglyph Open-Air Museum
Bronze Age to Early Medieval (Andronovo to Göktürk) · Andronovo, Saka (Scythian), Wusun and Turkic nomads
Issyk-Kul glacial boulder field with 2000 petroglyphs 2000 BCE–800 CE and lake panorama.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Archaeological wonder
Issyk-Kul
Issyk-Kul (Russian: Иссык-Куль) or Ysyk-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл [ɯsɯ́q kʰɵl]; lit. 'Hot Lake') is an endorheic saline lake in the western Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan—just south of a…