The Tamgaly petroglyphs

Tamgaly means marked place, and about 5,000 carvings across 48 separate sites in a gorge 170 km northwest of Almaty is why. They were cut over four distinct epochs, the earliest in the Bronze Age around 3,000 years ago and the latest in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, so you are looking at people adding to the same rock face for three millennia. The Middle Bronze Age panels are the ones held to matter most, and they include the sun-heads: human figures whose heads are drawn as radiating discs, solar deities carved by the people who came before the Saka. UNESCO listed the site in 2004, with a core area of 900 hectares and a buffer of 2,900. Zhetysu region, Kazakhstan.