Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia’s lost history

TORU-AYGYR, Kyrgyzstan: The sun had barely risen, but diving volunteer Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-thriving city have lain submerged for centuries. Situated on an ancient trading route between China and Europe, little is known about the history of the settlement under Kyrgyzstan’s largest lake or how it came to be