A piece of a large ceramic pot found in the lake has a stamp on it written in Armenian and Syrian scripts. Pictures: Dmitry Gorn
Posted on 09/04/2015 12:40:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Siberian scientists make discovery of 2,500 year old Saka settlement in up to 23 metres of water in Kyrgyzstan.
The new find at the lake is separate from the discovery in 2007 of the ruins of an ancient metropolis of roughly the same age and Scythian burial mounds under its waters...
A piece of a large ceramic pot found in the lake has a stamp on it written in Armenian and Syrian scripts, which, if confirmed, gives credence to the theory that an Armenian monastery was on this site in Medieval times, it is claimed.
An intriguing version is that this remote lake was the last resting place of evangelist St Matthew, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, and the find may support a theory that an Armenian monastery once existed here at which his relics were supposedly buried...
The divers worked in Tup Bay, in the northeast of the lake, which is the tenth largest in the world and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea...
Many Christian believers say that Matthew the Apostle's remains are in Salerno Cathedral, in Italy, which is dedicated to the saint. The Orthdox church has a different view, as set out by Vladimir, Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central-Asia.
He claimed that St Matthew's body - after a cruel death - was hidden by his followers, and buried on the beach of Issyk-Kul.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
A piece of a large ceramic pot found in the lake has a stamp on it written in Armenian and Syrian scripts. Pictures: Dmitry Gorn
“One more ancient civilisation found in Lake Issyk-Kul”
Pronounced “Lake Icicle”?
LOL!
I wonder what kind of SUV St. Matthew drove ?
The cathedral in Salerno also has the tomb of Pope Gregory VII, famous for his battle with the Emperor Henry IV. His last words are said to have been, “I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.”
The Russians exiled St Matthew to Siberia?
The Russkies have been doing this for a long long time.
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