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- Semiyarka is a Bronze Age settlement in northeastern Kazakhstan dating to around 1600 BC.
- Spanning 140 hectares, the site includes organized housing, a central building for governance or rituals, and a tin-bronze production zone.
- Archaeologists say the discovery challenges the view of steppe societies as nomadic, revealing a permanent urban hub above the Irtysh River that influenced regional trade and power.
