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Alternative ArchaeologySite Name: Seleutas Mountain Sphinx Alternative Name: Altai Sphinx, Seleutas Sphinx, Гора СелеуmCountry: Kazakhstan
NOTE: This site is 409.535 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Ust'-Kamenogorsk Nearest Village: Kazmunaigaz, Kazakhstan
Latitude: 50.144707N Longitude: 81.709939E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Rock formation in Kazakhstan. A russian archaeologist L.S. Marsadolov states, that it appears to be a heavily eroded yet massive granite sphinx, larger than the Great Sphinx of Egypt.
Not much research has been completed on the site yet, and its origin is still unknown.
Sources and information on this site Research Paper 1 Research Paper 2 It's featured in the book Hermeneutics of Megaliths by Konstantinos Maritsas and has been mentioned in this News Article
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