Saimaluu Tash
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| Saimaluu Tash | |
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 Moraine at Saimaluu Tash |
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| Elevation | 3,200 metres (10,499 feet) |
| Location | Kyrgyzstan |
| Range | Pamir and Tien Shan |
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Saimaluu Tash (Saimaly Tash) is a petroglyph site in Kyrgyzstan. It contains prehistoric (and maybe more recent) petroglyph engravings on boulders and stones along several moraines located in two high valleys, separated by a low mountain ridge. The place is at about 3.200 m altitude and 70 kilometers NE of Jalal-Abad in the Ferghana-Range. Saimaluu Tash is a word in the local Turkic-language and means "decorated stones". Over 10.000 carved pictures have so far been identified, making the site a worldwide important rock-art collection.
