Steppe Geoglyphs’ purpose still unknown
Posted On: Dec 5th, 2015 at 15:10
Kazakhstan
Known as the Steppe Geoglyphs, the incredible earthworks that astonished the archaeological world when they were discovered in 2007 are still baffling everyone who comes across them.
Their purpose is completely unknown, their size takes everyone’s breath away and, like the geoglyphs of Nazca, in Peru, South America, they can only be seen from the air.
The Ushtogaysky Square, for example, is much larger than the base of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. It contains 101 raised mounds which form a square, with two diagonal lines running from corner to corner.
In all there are at least 260 geoglyphs in the Turgai region of northern Kazakhstan and the oldest dates to at least 6000 BC.
Again we are seeing evidence of advanced building methods being used long before the accepted chronology of such techniques, and the 8,000-year-old geoglyphs are thousands of years older than places like the pyramids in Egypt and Avebury in England. In fact, there are few sites in the world older than the Steppe Geoglyphs of Turgai.
