A team of Turkish underwater explorers discovered amazingly preserved remains of a 3,000-year-old castle at the bottom of the country’s largest lake, Lake Van.
The team, working under the auspices of the provincial government, believes the castle was built under the Urartu Kingdom, also called the Kingdom of Van, which ruled the region between the 10th and 6th centuries B.C., according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. That determination was made based on the style of the ruins.
