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<< Text Pages >> Saimaly-Tash - Rock Art in Kyrgyzstan

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Rock ArtSite Name: Saimaly-Tash Alternative Name: Saimaluu Tash
Country: Kyrgyzstan
NOTE: This site is 235.549 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kosh-Dobo  Nearest Village: Taran-Bazar
Latitude: 41.179162N  Longitude: 73.814246E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Rock Art in Kyrgyzstan

A petroglyph site 3200m above sea-level with over 10.000 engravings. The oldest are from 2000BCE. It shows animals (e.g. ibex), humans and abstract signs.

On the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list - Saimaly-Tash Petroglyphs.
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