Petroglyphs of Tanbaly. Bronze Age rock carvings. Kazakhstan / Wikimedia Commons

Relief depicting delegations of the peoples of the Achaemenid Empire on the stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis. Iran, 5th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons

Saka ring depicting the solar god Mithra. 5th–4th centuries BCE / Getty Images

Horse archery competitions held within the third day of the 4th World Nomad Games held under the leadership of the World Ethnosport Confederation in the Iznik district of Bursa, Turkiye on October 01, 2022 /Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/

Kazakh national soup or drink - Nauryz Kozhe. Traditional festive food during Eastern New year - Nauryz/Shutterstock

All parts of the yurt surround the archa before and during installation to expel evil spirits. Kyrgyzstan © Sputnik / Tabyldy Kadyrbekov

Altybakan. Nauryz celebrations. March 23, 2021 / Getty Images

Young man with a dombra. Semipalatinsk, 1899 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Adult male blue-headed wagtail / Wikimedia Commons

Nauryz celebrations in Almaty, 2019 / Getty Images

Nauryz celebrations in Alma-Ata. Late 1980s / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan