Archeologists discover an Atlantis-like metropolis at the bottom of a lake

Could Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake be home to a real-life Atlantis in its depths? Stockbym - stock.adobe.com

Plato’s legend of Atlantis has come to life once again, with archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences having just discovered “traces of a submerged city” destroyed by a devastating 15th-century earthquake underneath Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk Kul, the eighth deepest lake in the world.

The city at the flooded Toru-Agygr complex, which lies near the lake’s northwest point, has now been excavated by the explorers, who surveyed four underwater zones at shallow depths ranging from three to 13 feet around the lake’s shoreline.

There, they found a wealth of everyday items that painted the picture of a once thriving metropolis or “large commercial agglomeration.” Discoveries in