Turkestan city might be 2,800 years old, mayor says

AKIPRESS.COM - Turkestan city might be 2,800 years old, said mayor of the Kazakh city Rashid Ayupov.
Specialists from 100 countries of the world will look into such a possibility and results will be known in Nov 2021.
Ayupov met with UNESCO representative Dmitry Voyakin and the Director General of the Institute of Archaeology named after Alkey Margulan Bauyrzhan Baitanaev.
"Well known archaeologist and UNESCO representative believe that Turkestan is at least 2000 years old," the Turkestan mayor's office said.
Turkestan might become one of the ancient cities of the world such as Samarkand, the statement said.