The artifacts found in Talgar confirm the medieval trade links with other countries. The import production from China, Iran, India, and Japan was brought to the city by the Silk Roads route.
There are collections of inscriptions on ceramics, stone and metal crafts in ancient Turkic, Orkhon alphabet, Chinese and Kidan languages, and Arabic inscriptions. Talgar is identified with the medieval town Talhiz reported by an anonymous Persian source of the 10th century "Hudud al-Alam". The medieval geographer wrote about Talgar: "Its citizens are warlike, brave and valorous".
Talgar settlement is located on the southern edge of Talgar, on the right bank of Talgar River, at the entrance to the gorge. The settlement represents a rectangular plot surrounded by a wall with towers at the corners and perimeter, and now is a slipped down rampart. Around the rampart there are traces of the ditch. The central part of the monument is a somewhat elevated above the total surface area, the corners oriented to the cardinal points. The size of its sides are: the northeastern - 300 m, northwestern – 298 m, southwestern – 280 m, southeastern – 302 m. The settlement is surrounded by a high defensive rampart, which a large part is already destroyed. Maximum height of the rampart in the southeastern corner is 4 m, the smallest one in the western part is about 1 m. On the perimeter of the ramparts there were located round towers at a distance of 20, 22, 30 meters from each other. From the southwestern side the settlement is fortified by the second outer rampart. Entrances are located opposite to each other in the middle of the wall. The streets that connect them divide the settlement into four parts. This is clearly
evident in the current topography of the monument.
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