Episode 1. Karazhartas Pyramid: The Great Steppe History

Ziggurat

A pyramid shaped temple tower

Begazy-Dandybai culture

an archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (XIII-IX centuries BC), discovered in the 1950s by the academician A.H. Margulan and located in Central Kazakhstan

necropolis

a cemetery, especially a large one belonging to an ancient city

radiocarbon dating

a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14

The mound with a mustache

burial structure, from which two symmetrical horseshoe-shaped ridges of stones - mustaches - extend to the east, sometimes reaching up to 300 m in length and ending in small mounds

Saka burial mounds

burial structures that were left by Saka tribes living in the territory of Kazakhstan in the middle of the 1st millennium BC

Turkic ritual fences

monuments of the Turkic era (VI-XII centuries), associated with the construction of memorial complexes

The Karazhartas "Steppe Pyramid"

one of the megalithic monuments of the Begazy-Dandybai culture of the Late Bronze Age, located on the right bank of the Taldy River, on the territory of the Shetsky district of the Karaganda region

Balbals

stone sculptures or processed stone pillars, sometimes with anthropomorphic features, usually installed at an ancient Turkic burial mound or a ritual memorial structure

The Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser

the oldest 6-step pyramid in Egypt, located in Saqqara, Egypt, 30 kilometers away from Cairo, and constructed in 2650 BC