Mausoleum excavations in Karagayly settlement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52967/3007-6528.2023.1.341.349Keywords:
mausoleum, monument, excavation, portal, burial, brickAbstract
The article mentions the work on the excavation of the mausoleum in the newly discovered settlements of Karagayly. A detailed description of the mausoleum is given, there is information about the discovered burials and artifacts, a brief preliminary conclusion of the excavation. The Karagayly monument is the first large settlement found on the caravan route going west from Sarayshyk. It is located 21 km west of the medieval settlement Sarayshyk. In 2022, it was discovered as a result of an archaeological expedition of the Saraishyk State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve. The earliest information about the ruins on the river Ashchysay (Solyanka) can be found in the travel notes of the topographer, staff captain A.E. Alekseev for 1861. At the moment, thanks to the primary research of the Karagayly monument, significant material has been collected about the ancient inhabitants of this region, about their economy, customs and traditions.
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Akhmetova, U. 2022. Kazakstannyn batys onirindegi altynordalyq qalalar, kone keruen joldary jane keruen-sarailar: panaralık zertteuler (XIII–XV gg.) gylymi jobanyn 2022 jylga arnalgan jyldık esebi (Golden Horde Cities, Ancient Trade Routes, and Caravanserais in the Western Region of Kazakhstan: Interdisciplinary Research (13th– 15th centuries). Saraishyk (in Kazakh).
Akhmetova, U. 2022. Nauchnyi otchet ob arheologicheskih rabotah po teme “Issledovanie srednevekovogo mavzoleyа v mestnosti Karagaily” (Scientific report on archaeological work on the Topic “Investigation of a medieval mausoleum in the Karagaily area”). Saraishyk (in Russian).
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