Aralsk and the sea that came backLegend Aralsk was a fishing port. Then the Soviet planners turned the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya out into the desert to grow cotton, and from the 1960s the Aral Sea drained: 68,000 square kilometres in 1960, the third largest lake on... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Bermuda Triangle’s cousin: the Nazca of KazakhstanLegend In 2007 a Kazakh economist scanning satellite imagery of the northern steppe found enormous geometric earthworks, squares, crosses, rings and a swastika-like figure, some hundreds of metres across, built of low mounds and only... Open it on the map · Read the story
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