"These telling pieces of evidence include the remains of a medieval burial ground, large ceramic vessels and parts of a building made of baked bricks. It's thought the city housed Muslim prayer houses, schools, bathhouses and possibly even a grain-milling operation for making bread. Expedition leader Valery Kolchenko, researcher at the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, said it was an 'important' commercial settlement."
"Appearing from space as a stunning blue void, Lake Issyk Kul is nearly 500,000 feet (182km) long and just under 200,000 feet (60km) wide. The mysterious Issyk-Kul has no known outflow, although some experts claim it is linked to a local river by a channel deep underground. Surrounded by the dramatic Tianshan mountains, it has risen dramatically since ancient and medieval times, which is why the ruins now lie underwater."
Explorers from the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered traces of a submerged medieval city beneath Lake Issyk Kul. Archaeologists surveyed shallow underwater zones one to four metres deep near the shoreline and found fired-brick structures, a millstone, collapsed stone constructions, large ceramic vessels and a medieval burial ground. The settlement likely contained Muslim prayer houses, schools, bathhouses and a grain-milling operation, indicating commercial activity. Excavations focused on the flooded Toru-Aygyr complex at the lake's northwest, an important point on an ancient trade route. The site was lost in the 15th century after a catastrophic event, and rising lake levels submerged the ruins.
Read at Mail Online
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]