Partially excavated places tagged “saka”

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Zhetytobe Kurgan Necropolis (Turkestan Ridge – Ancient Asativ)

Early to Middle Saka · Saka of the eastern Aral–Karatau

Seven-hills ridge with 7 giant kurgans 42-72 m plus 14 satellites: Saka necropolis above Sozak oasis.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Taldy-2 Kurgan – Tasmola Culture Royal Tomb

Early Iron Age, Tasmola/Scythian-Saka (9th–5th c. BCE) · Tasmola (Saka-Scythian) steppe pastoralists

8-m-high 800 BCE Tasmola royal mound (70 m wide) with 4,500 golds and 30 satellite 'moustache' stone alignments.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Uygarak Kurgan Field (Lower Syr Darya Sakas – Inkardarya Delta)

Early Saka (Uygarak) to Sauromatian · Lower Syr Darya Sakas (Uygarak culture)

Inkardarya delta type-site: 70 low mounds (8-32 m) with standing-stag plaques spanning 300 years.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Shilikty South Rock Overhang Kurgan (Shilikty Southern Granite Overhang Field)

Early Saka Shilikty southern overhang (650–580 BCE) · Saka southern Shilikty granite spur

3 rock-shelter kurgans beneath 12 m granite overhang: talus gneiss chamber 5.8 m spall mound with mirror 18 cm 610 BCE.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Shilikty Central Terrace Kurgan (Shilikty Chilikty Middle Terrace Royal)

Early Saka (Arzhan–Shilikty 800–700 BCE) — Shilikty middle terrace · Saka of eastern Kazakhstan (Mayemer–Shilikty)

68 m middle terrace royal 730 BCE: 13 horse western compartment and 432 eagle-griffin plaques including stag 22 cm.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Boralday Saka Kurgans (Boralday Steppe Necropolis)

Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)

Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Boralday North Crest Mound 22 (Boralday Northern Apex Kurgan)

Late Saka (280 BCE) — Boralday late group · Saka Tigrakhauda late (pre-Wusun transition)

82 m northern apex mound 22 at 820 m: 13 m high with panther foil and Han belt hook — Silk Road import in Boralday crest.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art

Tamgaly-Tas II — Ili River South Bank Petroglyphs

Iron Age to Early Modern · Saka (Scythian), Dzungar Oirat Mongol, Kazakh

Ili River south bank continuation of 17th-century Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist carvings with Saka animal style underneath.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Besshatyr Shylbyr Adjunct North Mound (Besshatyr–Shylbyr Gorge North Entrance)

Early Saka 480 BCE to Wusun 180 CE (gateway reuse) · Saka Semirechye primary; Wusun 180 CE secondary

38 m gorge-gateway sentinel 610 m: 480 BCE + Wusun 180 CE, 6 horse offering pits around base marking Shylbyr gorge mouth.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Boralday South Picket Row Kurgans (Boralday Southern Alignment Picket)

Late Saka to Wusun transition (180–100 BCE) · Saka late–Wusun transition (Boralday south picket)

5 south picket kurgans 18–26 m spaced 90 m: boundary sentinels with Han silk 140 BCE earliest silk in Kazakhstan.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art

Cholpon-Ata Petroglyph Open-Air Museum

Bronze Age to Early Medieval (Andronovo to Göktürk) · Andronovo, Saka (Scythian), Wusun and Turkic nomads

Issyk-Kul glacial boulder field with 2000 petroglyphs 2000 BCE–800 CE and lake panorama.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art

Tamgaly-Tas III Upper Terrace Ili Petroglyphs

Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju

Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Besshatyr Royal Necropolis (Royal Mound 6 — Altyn-Emel, Semirechye)

Early Iron Age (Saka, 600–400 BCE) · Saka of Semirechye (Issyk–Besshatyr, eastern Saka)

31-mound Saka royal necropolis (600–400 BCE) — Ili River's 'Five Tents' with 105-m royal mound and log house.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art

Tamgaly II South Terrace Petroglyphs

Bronze Age to Early Nomadic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic

South terrace 600 m south of Tamgaly UNESCO core with Late Bronze chariot stratigraphy.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan

Tuyuk-Su Kurgan Cluster (Ile Alatau, Almaty)

Early Iron Age (Saka Tigrakhauda) · Saka (Central Asian Scythian)

High mountain (2,450 m, 43°13′N 77°05′E) Saka kurgan chain in Tuyuk-Su Gorge, Ile Alatau north slope above Greater Almaty moraine (Issyk Golden Man 43° north same massif).

🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Uyuk Valley Second Kurgan Terrace (North Arzhan Satellite)

Early Iron Age (Arzhan-Chertomlyk) · Arzhan (Early Scythian / Saka Royal)

Second terrace north of Uyuk River (950 m, 52°03′N 93°51′E) in the Tuva Valley of the Kings, complementing Arzhan 1 (9th c BCE) and Arzhan 2 (7th c BCE) on south terrace and Tunnug 1 (9th c) centre.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan

Shilikty North Kurgan (Chilikty North Royal Terrace)

Early Saka (7th–6th c. BCE) · Early Saka (Shilikty facies)

Shilikty north: 5 early royal kurgans (62 m) 2.2 km north of Golden Ridge, Zaisan valley 820 m.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan

Tamgaly Tas Kurgan Field (Ili River Terraces)

Late Bronze to Early Iron (Andronovo / Saka) + Turkic · Andronovo / Saka / Turkic

Ili River terrace kurgan field (650 m, 43°56′N 75°32′E 43.93,75.53) downstream from Tamgaly UNESCO rock-art gorge (1145), on second terrace above Ili.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan