Archaeologists from Karaganda University found a 3,400-year-old pyramid from the Scythian-Saka period and the ruins of the proto-city of the Begazy-Dandybay community in Kazakhstan. TRT News reports this.
The pyramid is located on a hill overlooking the Taldy River in the Shet district of Karaganda. According to radiocarbon dating, BC. It was built between the 14th and 12th centuries. The pyramid is a mausoleum consisting of several steps. Archaeologists who found it believe that the Talda River valley was used as a burial place for the aristocracy by representatives of the Begazy-Dandybaevsky phase of the Andronovo culture.
During excavations in this region, the settlement of a proto-city belonging to the Begazy-Dandybai community was also unearthed. As stated by one of the scientists who made the discovery, this settlement, which covers an area of 15 hectares, existed in the same historical period as Troy in Asia Minor and the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. A series of walls, a street network and a water collection system were found in the settlement.
“The cut stones found in the pyramid, the size of the mausoleum and the fact that such a huge structure was built in a very arid region, in the steppe, in the Bronze Age are indicators of the high understanding of art and spiritual beliefs. What the Begazy-Dandybay communities achieved,” concluded Aybar Kassenali, employee of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Scientists believe the discovery confirms that the Begazy-Dandibai communities show a close connection with the proto-Turkic culture originating from the Karasuk culture in southern Siberia.
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