Sary-Oi, cape Seal. The remains of a palace built type, tiles with blue
glaze and shaped tiles with a relief pattern have been found on the shore
of the lake, near the village on the island and. the peninsula. The researchers
observed the water area, lined with large ceramic tiles, as well as large
rounded pebbles.
The farther from the shore, the more frequently encountered heaps of bricks,
a variety of forms: they are yellowish, brown, red and even black on the
fracture. The link water pipe made of red clay, was raised from the bottom.
A stone dome construction has been found at the height of 200 meters from
the shore under water at a 3-3,5 meters deep.
Slightly lower submerged stone cones of unknown purpose have been found
nearby. They found a large collection of pottery shards, big stones on the
shallow part of the island that appeared out of the water in the past few
years. A millstone of the mill, the bones of cows and sheep, coins, tracks,
covered with sand, listed foci and masonry, diffused with the water were discovered.
The underwater ruins, which lie at a depth of 4-5 m below the water surface,
200 m from the shore, are of a particular interest. They are located on
the east side of the big sandbank up to 600 m, which departs from the beach
about 2 km. The northern part of the underwater hill has a steep cliff and
there is a gentle slope on the south. The submerged wall, located on the
continental sandbank, built of large stones of 30x20 cm and 60x30 cm is
the object of attention. The north-eastern end of the wall can be clearly
seen. But the main part of it buried under the sand and pebbles. There are
18 logs, poles, circular cross-section diameter of 7-15 cm on the top of
the stone wall. Having placed with the distance of 10-15 cm, they form a
quadrangular wooden floor of 5.2 m long and 3,3 m. width. To the south of
the first floor cover there are two floor covers, but smaller.
70 meters from the ruins, under the water, there are the remains of another
stone building, built of large square bricks of 25x25x5 cm in size. Four
links of water supply or drain pipes have been found on the eastern side
of it. Three of them are connected to each other by the sockets with internal
grooves. The length of each link is 36 cm, diameter is 12 cm (the funnel
is 15 cm). 10 m further to the south three stone slabs, beams of 3.2 m long
and of 8.11 cm thick have been discovered.
Arab authors Ibn Arabshah in the XV century. and Mohammed Haidar in the
XVI century wrote about the existence of some large island with numerous fortifications
and houses in the northern part of the lake Issyk-Kul. These structures have
been used in the XIV century by the conqueror of the East Timur, who held
his prisoners in the conclusion according to one source of information, and
he rested here after hiking according to another source of information.
There is another version that island fortress was built by Emir Hakk Birdy
Bekichek in the same XV century. But decades later, the fortress belonged
to the Timurid dynasty. There is also evidence that the buildings at the
Issyk-Kul lake, lasted until the first half of XVIII, before the brief Chinese
rule here, that replaced the broken Kalmyk Empire.