Petroglyphs Of Tamgaly

Tamgaly is a museum-reserve located in the Zhambyl region, in the southeastern part of the Chu-Ili mountains. It is located 180 kilometers away from Almaty city (if you drive to the north-west). In the immediate vicinity of the museum-reserve, there is Karabastau village.

Homonymous tract is extremely interesting for tourists. Here, you will find about 100 monuments representing different eras. For example, ancient tombs, petroglyphs and many other structures that can be considered to be cult ones. The time scatter is impressive. Some structures belong to the 14th-13th centuries BC, and some were built between the 19th-20th centuries. Therefore, this archaeological complex is believed to be a unique one. It preserves the history of many ancient and modern peoples of our country during three millennia.

The main object of this territory is the canyon. Its rocks have 5 groups with about 3 thousand petroglyphs. They were carved on the slopes looking in only one direction. In front of all the rocks, there is a place from where these ancient drawings are visible all at a time. At the same time, they are successively combined into intricate and complex compositions.

The Tamgaly gallery of petroglyphs is a kind of a story of ancient bronze tribal mythology. Many of the Tamgaly petroglyphs of the Bronze Age are unique part of the Central Asian rock art.