Issyk-kul ruins

[Ferrus]

http://discovery-kyrgyzstan.com/archive/2005/5_5article.php

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071227/94372640.html

Is this genuine? I never heard of this till I encountered it in Wikipedia. Seems a remarkably unheralded discovery if it is.

[Hustler]

tl;dr. CliffsNotes?

[sandwich]

I've seen articles about it before. It's fairly typical for Central Asian anything to be overlooked. I think it's legit.

[C.J.Woolf]

Issyk-kul sounds kinda like a George W. Bush mispronunciation.

[Ferrus]

Actually I only found out about this when looking through my grandmother's school geography book/atlas from 1926. It included descriptions of various important lakes in the world, by continent, and this one was mentioned in what was then the USSR. So, I googled it. And found out about this. Shrugs.

Point taken about the overlooking of anything in Central Asia. Still, it is astonishing archaelogy if you ask me.

[djm]

I've seen articles about it before. It's fairly typical for Central Asian anything to be overlooked. I think it's legit.


Point taken about the overlooking of anything in Central Asia. Still, it is astonishing archaelogy if you ask me.

Central Asia is only overlooked in the west - it certainly is not overlooked in Russia. It's just a case of ethnocentrism and lack of contact / trading relations for the most part, which is perfectly understandable.

Do not know enough about the ruins to comment, but I see no reason why they should be.

Talking of central asia I am contemplating going climbing / plant spotting in Tuva this summer for a few weeks if I get time.

[Ferrus]

Well, this has made me think more again about joining my county's archaeology society. It seems something that could be related to my interests and is less solitary than solely reading books. Hmm. There are plenty of Roman artefacts to be found in Kent too - there was a Roman villa on the hill half a mile from where I lived.

[ApeTheDog]

So many things aren't found yet, because people don't know where to look. They discovered a whole bunch of buried rocks really close to Stonehenge recently, didn't they? And you'd think that, at least, would be an area they'd have investigated closely.

What I also find kind of frustrating is that we haven't dug up the vast majority of Pompei yet. It's really good that we haven't. I imagine archeologists are waiting until they can do so later when not everything they dig up will deteriorate right away. But I'd like to see more of what they can find.

You should, Ferrus. Be careful, though. Archeology requires absolute physical fitness. Look at Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. You'll have to hit the gym if you want to survive all the traps.