[5] The petroglyph site is located in the Fergana Range at about 3,200 metres (10,500 ft) in two high valleys, separated by a low mountain ridge.

[1][2] From Kazarman village for a short distance there is a road on which only jeeps can ply but the rest of the way to the site can be reached in about a day on foot or horseback, but only around the month of August.

[6] The nature park is crossed by a number of rivers that spring from the Fergana Range, including the Kyldoo, Kök-Art and Kongur-Döbö (Naryn basin).

Exact dating of the rock art is controversial and only reliable from the first millennium BC with the arrival of the Saka-Scythian animal style.

It is part of the spiritual ethos of the peoples' "religious beliefs and their worship of mountains, nature, totems and solar cosmic images."

One of the cartographers, Nikolai Khludov, who had heard tales from a shepherd of "painted stones" in close vicinity to their camp, decided to examine the site with a team of surveyors.

Saimaluu-Tash 1, which extends over a length of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi), contains petroglyphs etched on stones covered by a dark grey desert varnish.

The artists perhaps portrayed their feelings of gratitude to the spirits of the mountain after a good crop or a successful hunting expedition.

There are Bronze Age pictures that show signs of an early sun cult with solar headed anthropomorphic figures.