At the foot of the western Shan Tien — the mountain range that marks the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — the Burkhansai Gorges cut the district of Jhualy, in the Kazakh region of Jambyl. It is a mountain corridor that has long been traversed by pastoral and nomadic communities. In 2024, archaeologists from the Archaeology Institute A. Kh. Margulan undertook the first systematic excavations of the site. They documented more than 1,200 …
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At the foot of the western Shan Tien — the mountain range that marks the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — the Burkhansai Gorges cut the district of Jhualy, in the Kazakh region of Jambyl. It is a mountain corridor that has long been traversed by pastoral and nomadic communities. In 2024, archaeologists from the Archaeology Institute A. Kh. Margulan undertook the first systematic excavations of the site. They documented more than 1,200 …