🗿 Kerderi

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Kerderi is a group of abandoned settlements located on the dried seafloor of what was once the Aral Sea, in Kazakhstan. Kerderi is thought to have been inhabited around the fourteenth century, when water levels were low enough to expose dry land. It is not known when Kerderi was abandoned. However, some objects from Kerderi have been carbon-dated to as late as the start of the sixteenth century and historical evidence suggests that the Aral Sea began slowly refilling after 1570, when the Amu Darya river resumed its flow into the Aral. Kerderi was completely flooded; at 1960 water levels, the settlement was inundated under 19 metres (62 ft) of water. When the Soviets diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya after the 1960s, the Aral retreated once more, and Kerderi became accessible for the first time in modern history. The settlements were rediscovered in 2001. They have since served as important evidence of the Aral Sea's historic changes in depth.

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Kerderi is located in Kazakhstan, in Europe.

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