Posted on 12/29/2007 8:32:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An international archeological expedition to Lake Issyk Kul, high in the Kyrgyz mountains, proves the existence of an advanced civilization 25 centuries ago... The expedition resulted in sensational finds, including the discovery of major settlements, presently buried underwater... Last year, we worked near the north coast at depths of 5-10 metres to discover formidable walls, some stretching for 500 meters-traces of a large city with an area of several square kilometers... We also found Scythian burial mounds, eroded by waves over the centuries, and numerous well preserved artifacts-bronze battleaxes, arrowheads, self-sharpening daggers, objects discarded by smiths, casting molds, and a faceted gold bar, which was a monetary unit of the time... Somewhere in the vicinity was Chihu, the metropolitan city of a mighty state of Wusung nomads, which ancient Chinese chronicles mentioned on many occasions. The Great Silk Road lay along the lake's coast until the 18th century. Even today, the descendants of caravan drivers recollect their ancestors' stories about travelling from Asia to Europe and back. Tamerlane built a fortress on one of the lake islets to hold aristocratic captives and keep his treasures... Throughout the years of their partnership, Russian and Kyrgyz archeologists discovered and examined more than ten major flooded urban and rural settlements of varying ages... Some artifacts are stunning. A 2,500 year-old ritual bronze cauldron was found on the bottom of the lake... Also of superb workmanship are bronze mirrors, festive horse harnesses and many other objects. Articles identified as the world's oldest extant coins were also found underwater-gold wire rings used as small change and a large hexahedral goldpiece.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.rian.ru ...
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Based on the title, the is a Teddy Kennedy joke in there somewhere.
“there” not the. I’m obviously too tired to find it though.
It’s okay. Just remember to establish an alibi.
Hmmm, flooded. So in ancient times the seas were much lower.
There’s an explanation for the sudden changes of the lake level, but you’ll have to visit the complete article to read about it. :’)
BUMP!
I’m too tired to read it, just read it aloud to me as a bedtime story....... zzzzzz......
‘It was king Ossounes’ who ruled the area once upon a time. He had tow ears shaped as that of ass! It was a top secret and the barbers who did the job of his hair-dressing were killed after the job to keep the secrecy. One barber soon after the job yelled in to an unused well that ‘the king has ass ears’ before he could be killed. The well kept on repeating the words in loud echo. King and his cronies filled the well with rubbles to silence it, but the water from the well over-flowed and flooded the entire empire! This lake Issyk Kul was born and beneath the lake are there the palace and all the treasures the king kept.
Its water is crystal-clear but a bit salty when scooped in the palm of the hand it appears to have a slightly bluish tinge (the reason for this lake appear turquoise in a cloudless day. Many rivers and streams flow in to this lake (altogether 118 among them Djyrgalan and Tyrup are major ones) but there is no outlet from the lake, There are many underwater ground springs which pumps hot ground water in to this lake; so that this lake is always warm (it doesn’t freezes even in the harshest winter). This phenomenon is responsible for controlling the microclimate of the valley where winter less cold and summer less hot...
The water is here described as having the same salinity as sea water.
The blades had a tungsten laminar coating?
Heck, that’s nothing.
There’s a lost city of gold at the bottom of Lake Erie.
Huh... there’s an old story in Anatolia about Alexander the Great that sounds very similar; his barber was the only one who knew he had horns, and he had to get it off his chest, so he shouted it down a well. There were reeds growing in the well (yuck!), and those reeds wound up getting cut for use in woodwind instruments, so the story of Alexander’s horns got spread across the Earth. The end. ;’)
The claim that Alexander had horns is still taught to Moslem kiddies; its origin appears to have been some coins showing Alexander horned, as (if memory serves) Zeus-Ammon.
Erie, what a joke, I can *almost* walk across that one standing on my tippie toes. ;’)
I’m not sold on the author’s overall credibility. :’)
:’)
Hey, wait a minute...
Lake Issyk Kul?
Lake Icicle?
What is this, April Fool? ;’)
Molasses has Ida’s ears, so that’s fair. ;’)
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