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H History of Aral Sea investigations – as V.V. Bartold (see) noted, the areas nearby the Aral ‘‘had been involved in historical life rather late.’’ First allusions to the A.S. existence were found with Greek authors. Strabo (64–63 B.C.–23–24 A.D.) pointed out that the territory to the east of the | H History of Aral Sea investigations - as V. V. Bartold see noted the areas nearby the Aral had been involved in historical life rather late. First allusions to the A.S. existence were found with Greek authors. Strabo 64-63 B.C.-23-24 A.D. pointed out that the territory to the east of the Caspian Sea was populated by nomadic tribes daev who came here from the area located behind Tanais and Meotide meaning near the Syrdarya and the Aral Sea. The first data about A.S. were obtained in 138 B.C. from Chang Chien who was delegated by the Chinese government as an ambassador to Central Asia and who wrote about finding there a big lake without high shores. Chang Chien meant Northern Sea but to other Chinese sources this was the Western Sea. As is known in 97 B.C. Chinese military commander Ban Chao with his troops approached A.S. while the Byzantine ambassador who was directed in 568 to Turkey brought among other things information about A.S. Nevertheless Ptolemy showed on his map in the 2nd century and published in Europe in 1490 that the Amudarya and Syrdarya flowed into the Caspian A.S. was not shown at all making it clear why the first attempts of the Russians in the early 18th century to make an accurate map of the territory to the east of the Caspian were reduced first of all to identifying the places of inflow of the major Central Asian rivers. In the 4th century Greek historian Ammian Marcellin was the first and only of the ancient authors whose words contained clear indication to the existence of the Aral Sea. Mostly correct data about A.S. could be found in the treatises of the Arab scientists of the 9th-10th centuries. They provided data about the size of the sea and described its shores. In the mid-10th century Arab writer Ibn Ruste mentioned A.S. in his works. At the same time the first cartographic presentation of the Khorezmian Sea Istakhri had appeared. The Istakhri map descriptions of Ibn Ruste and other Medieval investigators proved that at those times .
