Divers Map Medieval Silk Road City Submerged Beneath Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul
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Asia · Kyrgyzstan · Oct 05, 2026
Primary source: Ynetnews
A Russian-Kyrgyz expedition is surveying Toru-Aygyr, a Silk Road city that sank beneath Lake Issyk-Kul roughly 800 years ago, recovering pottery, a possible mosque and burial grounds from the Kara-Khanid period.
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