Viktor Novozhenov told about another sensational find of Karaganda archaeologists on Facebook.
“Thanks to photographs from satellites in recent years, numerous mysterious figures have been discovered on the surface of the Kazakh steppe - giant“lines”in the form of geometric figures -“geoglyphs”, similar to the famous images in the Nazca desert,” he writes. - However, unlike the Peruvian images of giant animals on the ground and mysterious abstract "lines" and "labyrinths", ours are huge exclusively geometric, not figurative images on the surface of the steppe - most often squares, rectangles, or tamga-like signs. Geographically, the closest such giant image of a moose on a hillside was recently discovered by Chelyabinsk archaeologists in the South Urals (Vera Island) and dated to the Eneolithic era.
In the fall of 2016, according to the scientist, an archaeological expedition of the Buketov Karaganda University studied a monument near Karaganda, which was given the code name Shantimez. It is a quadrangular structure of large slabs. The length of one side of it exceeds 40 meters. At the same time, the inside of the building is neatly lined with stone, which resembles paving stones on Red Square in Moscow.
In the center of this site there is a burial mound and the remains of several ring fences made of large stones. Experts dated the monument to the 10th century BC.
The design of this monumental structure resembles the gigantic burial fences synchronized in time - khereksurs, known in East Turkestan, Siberia, Mongolia and Transbaikalia. There is also a resemblance to the later monumental burial complexes of the early nomads, such as the famous barrows with "mustaches" - huge stone ridges extending hundreds of meters from the main barrow.
All such megalithic structures were originally erected monumental, in gigantic proportions and sizes. It is because of this - paradoxically - for a long time these monuments were completely invisible on the surface of the steppe.
“And only a bird's eye view made it possible to identify them. "So the ancient people knew how to fly?" - the astonished reader will ask. Not at all necessary.
It was noticed that all such structures were erected at the foot of small hills, and topographic analysis made it possible to calculate the most convenient viewing points - a kind of "observation deck" from which one could observe these giant figures - memorial complexes, kind of temples in the open air, - writes Victor Newlyweds. “It was at such sites, as at the megalithic complexes themselves, that apparently special memorial rituals and ceremonies in honor of the Aruach ancestors were held.”
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According to him, the investigated giant square with a circle inscribed in it actually reproduces the most ancient image of the mandala - a graphic symbol that is interpreted in Indo-Aryan mythology as a model of the universe, a harmonious combination of Earth and Heaven. This cosmogonic symbol was then perceived in the concept of Tengrianism and developed in the ideological and mythological concepts of the early nomads."
Research on this unique monument has just begun. Probably, there will be new discoveries, the scientist believes.