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Saymaluu-Tash petroglyphs
Bronze Age drawings on more than ten thousand stones high in the mountains, one of the world's largest collections of rock art.
Saymaluu-Tash ("patterned stones") lies on a high mountain plateau south of Kazarman in Jalal-Abad Region and is protected as a national park.
Most of the images pecked into more than ten thousand stones date from about 2500–900 BC and show animals, hunters, ploughmen, the sun and many symbols.
Snow covers the site for most of the year, and it can only be reached in summer on horseback or on foot. Scholars see it as a sacred place of offerings for ancient people.
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Updated: October 3, 2026