A stone carving depicting a human face founed in the Akmola Region of Kazakhstan.

A recent survey by the Ministry of Emergency Situations has uncovered a mysterious stone carving depicting a human face in the Akmola Region of Kazakhstan. The discovery was made in the Sandyktau district, where employees from the Emergency Situations Department found the depiction carved onto the face of a granite boulder.

Newsweek reports that researchers from the Margulan Institute of Archaeology have discovered a face carved into a granite boulder at the top of a rocky outcrop in central Kazakhstan.

The carving measures about ten inches long by eight inches wide, with well-preserved eyes, nose, and lips. A collapsed stone stele measuring more than six feet long and three feet wide was found nearby.

It had been carved on one side with an image of a deer with large antlers. Archaeologist Sergey Yarygin said that the carved face and the stele are similar to others found at Bronze Age sites in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but additional research is need to determine the age of the site