The main images of petroglyphs of Khar magnay

Abstract

The sightseeing of petroglyph is located in Nogoonnuursoum, Bayan-Ulgii province. The summer camp, where the families of Nogoonnuursoum pass the summer is called as a Khar magnai – it is existed on the point which about in western 50km far away from soum center and 18 km away from Tsagaannuur village. So this place is named as a petroglyph of Khar magnai. There are so many kinds of animals such as wild sheep, wild goat, horse, cow, wolf, fox, tiger, pampas cat, deer and other detailed graphically descriptions such as stamp, people, horse cart, hunters who are hunting, troops with mushroom shaped hats, hunters with arrow and bow who are fighting each other, narrow graphics, deer and wild goat  carved with narrow lines , monuments Tibetan and Runi scripts and other ritual, confusing and not understanding, interesting and unusual descriptions in Khar magnai petroglyph. The two main methods such as carving the general point with sharp pointed equipment and hollowing the whole area were used to describe the petroglyphs. For the time period, the petroglyphs may include from Bronze period to the early stage of the Iron, despite of hunnu and Tibetan scripts, it involves until ancient Turkish period time.