Artyk-Ata

Artyk-Ata, also called Artyk-Tobe, is a medieval fortified town on the left bank of the Syr Darya, in the Akkol locality near Otrar. Its quadrangular mound covers about 3.7 hectares and has three parts: a citadel and an inner town rising some nine metres in the south-east, and an outer settlement a few metres high in the north-west. Pottery from the upper layer dates from the age of Timur, so the town was still lived in during the fourteenth century. It is often identified with the old town of Arkuk.