#lake van

[baebeylik]

Xerxes Cuneiform Van. Achaemenid. Lake Van, modern day Türkiye. 486–465 BCE.

Photograph by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen.

[chicken-magnet]

...apparently lake van is so basic (pH level at 9.8) that if you stay in it for long enough it will turn you blond.

huh...

[13thpythagoras]

At the bottom of Lake Van, Türkiye’s largest salty soda lake with 3,712 square kilometers, divers discovered a cemetery and...

Per Matthew LaCroix, the ruins at the bottom of this lake are older than Göbekli Tepe, potentially 16k+ years old, and evidence of an advanced ice-age society, further blowing the lid off what we thought we knew about anthropology, especially the linear progress paradigm...

[lesmachins]

Pearl mullets attempt to swim upstream in the Lake Van basin in Van, Turkey. #

-- Out to Lunch

[tearsofrefugees]

In Turkey, lake turns into graveyard for migrants

Gravestones scribbled with identity numbers are all that remain of dozens of migrants aboard a boat that sank in a Turkish lake as they struggled to make it to Europe.

[heykav]

In Turkey, lake turns into graveyard for migrants

In Turkey, lake turns into graveyard for migrants

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VAN, Turkey: Gravestones scribbled with identity numbers are all that remain of dozens of migrants aboard a boat that sank in a Turkish lake as they struggled to make it to Europe. Lake Van, a vast body of water nearly seven times the size of Lake Geneva, has become a death trap for Afghan, Pakistani and other migrants seeking security and work. The sinking of two boats in June and…

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[tearsofrefugees]

Turkey: Boat carrying up to 60 refugees sinks in Lake Van

The lake is near the border with Iran, from where refugees regularly cross into Turkey to head west towards Europe.

[atlanticinfocus]

From The Birds of Turkey’s Lake Van, one of 27 photos. Storks stand silhouetted against the full moon in their nest on a power pole near Lake Van in Turkey's Van province on September 5, 2017. (Ozkan Bilgin / Anadolu Agency / Getty)