🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Petrovka (archaeological site)
Bronze Age settlement in Zhambyl District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan
🇰🇿 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 · Rock art
Akkainar and Zhartas petroglyphs
The Akkainar and Zhartas petroglyphs are located in the Akkainar River valley in Zhambyl District, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Boralday (archaeological site)
Boralday (Kazakh: Боралдай), is a kurgan necropolis in Almaty, Kazakhstan, dating to the early Iron Age and associated with the Saka people.
🇰🇿 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.
🇰🇿 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 · Archaeological wonder
Merke Turkic Sanctuaries
The Turkic Sanctuaries of Merke (Kazakh: Мерке түрік ордасы, romanized: Merke türik ordası) are located in southern Kazakhstan, roughly 37 km south of present-day Merke in the Jambyl Province.
🇰🇿 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 · Rock art
Tamgaly Petroglyph Sun-Head Deity Panel
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Tamgaly Petroglyph Sun-Head Deity Panel in Almaty, Tamgaly, Kazakhstan is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Ustyurt Karynzharyk Kite Field (Mangystau)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze (Kelteminar-Bozashy) · Ustyurt steppe Kelteminar
Central Asian steppe-kite province on the Ustyurt chalk plateau (160 m, 44°12′N 54°12′E) in the 40 m deep Karynzharyk karst depression (Ustyurt Biosphere).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Tuyuk-Su Kurgan Cluster (Ile Alatau, Almaty)
Early Iron Age (Saka Tigrakhauda) · Saka (Central Asian Scythian)
High mountain (2,450 m, 43°13′N 77°05′E) Saka kurgan chain in Tuyuk-Su Gorge, Ile Alatau north slope above Greater Almaty moraine (Issyk Golden Man 43° north same massif).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Tamgaly Tas Kurgan Field (Ili River Terraces)
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Andronovo / Saka) + Turkic · Andronovo / Saka / Turkic
Ili River terrace kurgan field (650 m, 43°56′N 75°32′E 43.93,75.53) downstream from Tamgaly UNESCO rock-art gorge (1145), on second terrace above Ili.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Kurgan
Chemurchek culture
The Chemurchek culture (Ch:切木尔切克, Qièmùěrqièkè; Ru: Чемурчекская культура), also called Khemtseg, Hemtseg, Qiemu’erqieke, Shamirshak (2750–1900 BCE), is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of western…
🇰🇿 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.
🇰🇬 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…
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Pazyryk burials
The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia;…