Tamgaly

Tamgaly is a petroglyph site in the Semirechye, Kazakhstan. Tamgaly is located 120 km to northwest of Almaty. The majority of the 5000 petroglyphs are in the main canyon, but there are a number in the many side canyons. The petroglyphs are mostly Bronze Age, but in some cases from the Iron Age and the Medieval.^[1]

The name Tamgaly in Kazakh and other Turkic languages means "painted or marked place".

Tamgaly became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. (See List of World Heritage Sites in Kazakhstan)

References

1. ^ Luc Hermann, die Petroglyphen von Tamgaly in Kasachstan, Paris, 2011 http://www.bod.fr/index.php?id=1786&objk_id=498624

External links

• "Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly" UNESCO
• Goryachev, A. A. and Mariyashev, A. N. (2000) "Petrogliphs of Semirechye";
• "Semirechye Petroglifleri", in Turkish, from WebArchive;