赛马里塔什岩画群坐落于费尔干纳山脉高处，是吉尔吉斯斯坦乃至整个中亚地区规模最宏大的自然圣域，收藏着世界上数量最丰富的岩画。经考证，现存约万块带图像的石块，最早可追溯至公元前3000年至2000年初，即新石器时代晚期至青铜时代。该遗址的独特性在于：自公元前3000年起，天山及费尔干纳盆地先民便持续将其作为神圣圣地使用，这一传统延续至中世纪甚至当代。作为中亚古代猎人、牧民及原始农耕部落的日常生活、思想观念、历史变迁与文化发展的重要见证，此处留存着关于其精神文化发展、宗教信仰体系及对山岳、自然、图腾与太阳宇宙观图像崇拜的丰富史料。

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　　Situated high up in the Ferghana mountain range, Saimaly-Tash is a grandiose natural sanctuary containing one of the biggest collections of rock pictures not only in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia but also in the whole world. About 10,000 stones with pictures have been identified, the earliest dating back to the third to early second millennia BC, that is to the Eneolithic and Bronze Ages. Saimaly-Tash is remarkable in that it has been in continuous use as a sacred site by the populations of Tien-Shan and Pre-Ferghana from the third millennium BC until the middle ages, and even until the present day. It is thus a rich source of knowledge about the everyday life, mentality, history and culture of the ancient tribes of hunters, cattlebreeders and first peasants in Central Asia, about the development of their spiritual culture, their religious beliefs and their worship of mountains, nature, totems and solar-cosmic images.