From the surface, Turkey's Lake Van looks like any other large body of water. Turkey's largest, the lake sits in the far eastern region of the country, near Iran. The lake has a striking blue ...

The mud at the bottom of Turkey's Lake Van stores information about the climate of the last 500,000 years. Millimeter-thin layers with embedded pollen reveal climate information with a year by ...

Despite that, the discovery of a submerged kingdom in Turkey was no less thrilling. A 3,000-year-old Urartu castle lying perfectly preserved in the alkaline waters of Lake Van has rekindled the ...

Underwater director Tahsin Ceylan and his team recently discovered ancient structures beneath the icy waters of Lake Van in Turkey, capturing images of tower-like formations and wall remnants at a ...

As drought has caused Lake Van to recede, leaving something beautiful, but disturbing to be revealed: ancient fairy chimneys in Turkiye’s biggest lake. These fairy chimneys are really ...

Fringed by tawny-hued peaks soaring to 13,000ft, startlingly blue Lake Van, an inland sea seven times larger than Lake Geneva, is one of Turkey’s best-kept secrets. Given that this intriguingly ...

Lake Van in eastern Turkey has become a perilous crossing for migrants seeking a better life P Pulse News Agency International by AFP Follow Lake Van, a vast body of water nearly seven times the ...

Turkey, an agricultural superpower bridging Europe with Asia, perilously shrink in recent years. Lake Van, Turkey’s largest, has lost 1.5 percent of its surface area, hurting farmers and ...

including a claim that there is a lake in Turkey - Lake Van - that will do this to anyone swimming in it. Yes! Anyone who swims at Turkey’s largest saline-soda lake will experience temporary ...