Tamgaly

Tamgaly is a petroglyph site in the Zhetysu of Kazakhstan. Tamgaly is located 170 km (by road) 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 petrogylphs are mostly Bronze Age, but in some cases have been overlaid with Medieval or later etchings. There are some petrogylphs from the Iron Age.

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)

Gallery

• Tamgaly Petroglyph Horse.jpg

  Ancient stone carvings (petroglyphs) found in a small ravine at Tamgaly

• Tamgaly Ravine Panorama.JPG

  Looking across the small ravine that contains the petroglyphs

• Tamgaly Dancers.JPG

  Petroglyphs of ancient tribal dance and animals

• Tamgaly Sacred Site.JPG

  The largest group of petroglyphs in a sacred site

• Petroglyphs in Tamgaly, Kazakhstan 03.jpg

  thumb|Petroglyphs in Tamgaly, Unesco World Heritage Site, Kazakhstan

• Petroglyphs in Tamgaly, Kazakhstan 02.jpg

  thumb|Petroglyphs in Tamgaly, Unesco World Heritage Site, Kazakhstan

External links

• "Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly" UNESCO
• Goryachev, A. A. and Mariyashev, A. N. (2000) "Petrogliphs of Semirechye"; [Access to this URL no longer possible]
• "Semirechye Petroglifleri", in Turkish, from WebArchive;