Tamgaly-Tas is approx. 120 kilometres north-west of Almaty city, in Kazakhstan.
The area is famous for ancient stone carvings, (1) which are called petroglyphs. (present simple)
The rock carvings (2) were_ found by archaeologists in 1957. (past simple)
The carvings (3) _were_ made almost 3,000 years ago by a hunting, nomadic community using stone or metal tools but not all of them date from the same period. (past simple)
The daily lives and the spiritual world of the people (4)_are_ pictured: rituals, dances, ornaments, hunting and herding scenes. (present simple)
The drawings (5) _are_ best seen in the afternoon on a sunny day. (present simple)
From the nature of the drawings, it is believed that the canyon
(6) _was_ used as a tribal settlement for nomadic peoples dating from the Bronze Age and later. (past simple)
Some burial mounds and graves (7) _were_ built which indicates the area was also a ritual site. (past simple)
Unfortunately, many of the stone carvings (8) _are_ damaged as the area suffers from shifts in temperature, rock movements and fires in the steppes.
However, the site (8) _is_ registered by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage and great care (10) _is_ taken to preserve these outstanding natural and cultural features. (present simple)
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If the shore is shallow, the tsunami can be rolled without waves, and it looks like a series of sharp tides. Funds that would have accurately identified the approaching wave does not exist. Therefore, if a storm swooped down gradually and people have time to retreat to a safe distance, the tsunami always rapid. Tsunamis are accompanied by a severe withdrawal of water from the shore, but to leave the place it's already too late. For the vessel in the open sea, where the depth reaches several kilometers, the tsunami poses no danger, since wave height is only 1 m. the speed of the wave in the hearth reach 700 km/h. When approaching the shore with decreasing depth of the thickness of a moving wave rises to a height of 50 m, and decreases movement speed. Tsunamis have multiple waves, the first and, as a rule, not the biggest, and misleading that the tsunami has passed. But the first wave only wets the shore, reducing the resistance to subsequent waves. A fatal mistake the dead is returning to shore after the initial destruction, where they are overtaken by the next biggest wave. Repeated waves may come at intervals of 2-3 hours.